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      Arctic Discoveries: Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North

      John Bockstoce,John R. Bockstoce

      The Arctic is a land of elemental contrasts, a place of both sublime beauty and unforgiving harshness. From the extreme heat and endless light of summer to the punishing cold…

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      Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

      John R. Bockstoce

      Covering the scientific, commercial, and foreign-relations implications of the northern fur trade, this book provides an insight into the relationship between the Western powers and the Native Americans who provided…

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      The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the Kanhigmiut in Kotzebue Sound

      John R Bockstoce

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      High Latitude, North Atlantic: 30,000 Miles Through Cold Seas and History

      Dr John R Bockstoce

      Arctic scholar and voyager John R. Bockstoce here recounts 10 passages he made into northern latitudes during the 1990s in his sturdy motor-sailor Belvedere.

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      White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century

      John R. Bockstoce

      How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic

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      The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854: Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS Plover in Search for Sir John Franklin Volume I

      In 1845 Sir John Franklin’s expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover’s was the first departure of 21…

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      The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854: Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS Plover in Search for Sir John Franklin Volume II

      Appendices include accounts of the Search’s five boat expeditions near Point Barrow as well as Dr John Simpson’s seminal essay on the Eskimos of northern Alaska. The main pagination of…

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