In these latitudes: American and Inuit stories of survival, 1850-1922

• Main Author: Routledge, Karen, 1976-
• Other Authors: Routledge, Karen, 1976- (author), Lears, T. J. Jackson (chair), Schrepfer, Susan (co-chair), Fabian, Ann (internal member), Clemens, Paul (internal member), Trott, Christopher G. (outside member), Rutgers University, Graduate School - New Brunswick
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: History; Arctic regions—Discovery and exploration—American; Inuit—Canada; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cumberland Sound; Nunavut; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000063586

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a stream of popular narratives celebrated the struggles of European and American explorers who pushed out to the edges of their known worlds. Many of these adventurers travelled through Inuit homelands in the North American Arctic, recording their sur...