The land beyond : a memoir /

The land beyond : a memoir /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ives, Jack D.
Imprint:	Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvi, 186 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map
Language:	English
Series:	Alaska Digital Library.
Subject:	Ives, Jack D. -- Travel -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. Ives, Jack D. -- Travel -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec. Ives, Jack D. McGill Sub-arctic Research Laboratory -- History. McGill Sub-arctic Research Laboratory. Earth sciences -- Research -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 20th century. Earth sciences -- Research -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- History -- 20th century. Graduate students -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Biography. Wilderness areas -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 20th century. Wilderness areas -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec -- History -- 20th century. Natural history -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. Natural history -- Québec (Province) -- Nord-du-Québec. Earth sciences -- Research. Graduate students. Natural history. Travel. Wilderness areas. Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. Québec -- Nord-du-Québec. Electronic books. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216904

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ISBN:	9781602231054 1602231052 1602230773 9781602230774
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a mem.
Other form:	Print version: Ives, Jack D. Land beyond. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2010 9781602230774

Table of Contents:

Prologue
My first summer at the lab
History of Labrador-Ungava
Founding of the lab
Knob Lake and the lab : summer 1955
Astray Lake : our first canoe trip
Summing up : first summer
The Torngat Mountains : 1956/57
Into the wilderness
Results: Summer 1956
Winter 1956/57 : Ottawa
Torngat Mountains, 1957
The McGill Sub-Arctic Research Lab : operations, 1957-1960
Indian House Lake, 1958
Helluva Lake, 1958
Fall 1958 : an appraisal
The lab in 1958/59
The lab in 1959/60
Death on the Koroksoak
Transition : 1960-66
The quest for knowledge
Staffing
Research results: 1954-64
Wider impacts
Short biographies
Appendices.