A Hunter’s World
Abstract My Early Fascination with the Arctic Was Fed By images of its alien beauty. Like other southerners I saw a land of rock and ice, stripped to its essential stark form by the absence of forests, farmlands and the intrusive remains of human endeavour. The perpetual daylight of Arctic summers a...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
2006
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0004 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/51979683/isbn-9780912807304-book-part-4.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract My Early Fascination with the Arctic Was Fed By images of its alien beauty. Like other southerners I saw a land of rock and ice, stripped to its essential stark form by the absence of forests, farmlands and the intrusive remains of human endeavour. The perpetual daylight of Arctic summers added to the disorienting, dreamlike strangeness of this land, while the endless darkness and homicidal cold of winter were alluring in their menace. |
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