Arctic Discoveries: Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North (Volume 3) - Softcover

Bockstoce, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773521534 ISBN 13: 9780773521537

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In this photographic essay, John Bockstoce presents vivid images from four decades of sailing, researching, and photographing in the Arctic. He has journeyed in Alaska and the North Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, and the North Atlantic. His photographs convey his passion for the stark solitude of land, sky, water, and ice, his admiration for the lives and livelihoods of the Arctic's inhabitants, and his fascination with the haunting traces of a fragile human presence in the Far North.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"John Bockstoce is a great Arctic traveler in the earlier, harder sense of that term. He completed the long-sought Northwest Passage, a journey of unparalleled achievement. Starting in an Inuit skin boat at Nome, Alaska, he navigated eastward through ice-choked Canadian waters to the misty headlands of Holsteinsborg, West Greenland. He then sailed south along Labrador's coast to New York. John is an outstanding photographer and author and a true northern voyager."-James Houston, O.C.

About the Author:

John Bockstoce, Arctic historian and archaeologist, has been traveling and working in the North since 1962. He has carried out extensive excavations near Bering Strait, served for ten seasons as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew at Point Hope, Alaska, and has made three traverses of the Northwest Passage. He is the author of many articles and books on the Arctic, including Arctic Passages and the award-winning Whales, Ice, and Men.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0773521534
• ISBN 13: 9780773521537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144