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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