Introduction
Abstract The persistent donnee of Arctic-American literature is wild nature, and for good reason: the environment is a controlling reality at higher latitudes as it is not elsewhere. Here is a polar land that is sustained by as little as one-fourth of the sunlight available at the equator, that is c...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1990
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195061024.003.0001 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52479432/isbn-9780195061024-book-part-1.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract The persistent donnee of Arctic-American literature is wild nature, and for good reason: the environment is a controlling reality at higher latitudes as it is not elsewhere. Here is a polar land that is sustained by as little as one-fourth of the sunlight available at the equator, that is completely or almost wholly dark for up to three months of the year, and that endures periods of prolonged cold unsurpassed in the hemisphere. Some interior locations receive less precipitation than continental deserts. Several of the southeastern islands of Alaska, on the other hand, absorb more annual rainfall than the Amazon. |
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