About the Author:
Richard C. Davis is professor emeritus of English at the University of Calgary. He has edited Rupert's Land: A Cultural Tapestry and Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land Expedition, 1819-22.
Review:
Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in Lobsticks And Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks In The Arctic also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in Lobsticks And Stone Cairns are "human landmarks' dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life. Lobsticks And Stone Cairns is a fascinating series of biographical "windows in time" and highly recommended for Arctic history reading lists. -- Midwest Book Review
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