American Arctic Exploration: A Social and Cultural History, 1890-1930

• Main Author: Lukens, Robert Douglas
• Other Authors: Kusmer, Kenneth L., 1945-, Klepp, Susan E., Isenberg, Andrew C. (Andrew Christian), Nelson, Frederick E.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Temple University. Libraries 2011
• Subjects: American History; Arctic; Exploration; Greenland; Inuit; Polar; Stefansson; inuit
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1784

The Arctic has long held power over the American imagination as a place of otherworldly beauty, life-threatening elements, and dangerous wildlife. Nearing the end of the nineteenth century, in a time of great anxiety about the direction of American society, the region took on new significance. As a...