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Robert McGhee

The Last Imaginary Place

A Human History of the Arctic World

296 pages, 37 halftones, 9 maps  6 x 9-1/4  © 2005, 2007

Paper $18.00

ISBN: 9780226500898   Published June 2007

Acknowledgements
Prelude: An Arctic Vision 

1 After the Ice Age
2 A Distant Paradise: The Arctic in Ancient Thought
3 A Hunter's World
4 In Arctic Siberia
5 Vikings and Arctic Farmers: The Norse Atlantic Saga
6 Inuit
7 Ice and Death on the Northeast Passage
8 Martin Frobisher's Gold Mines
9 The Rape of Spitsbergen
10 Bay of Tragedy
11 Frozen Glory
12 The People's Land
13 An Arctic Journey

    Useful References, Interesting Reading
    Index
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