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1 online resource (xxxv, 217 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits |
| Contents |
CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREVIOUS USE OF PORTIONS OF HOOD'S JOURNAL -- Introduction -- NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF AN EXPEDITION ON DISCOVERY IN NORTH AMERICA -- I Gravesend to York Factory -- 2 York Factory to Cumberland House -- 3 Cumberland House and Pasquia Hills -- 4 Account of the Cree Indians -- 5 The Buffalo, Climate, Aurora Borealis, Magnetic Phenomena -- 6 Cumberland House to Fort Chipewyan -- 7 Fort Chipewyan to Fort Enterprize -- 8 Fort Enterprize to Point Lake |
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Epilogue: The Death of HoodHood's Paintings: Commentary -- The Men of the Expedition -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y |
| Summary |
"To the Arctic by Canoe records the experiences of a remarkable young adventurer, Robert Hood, during the first overland Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin. Franklin's expedition was the first to travel the northern coast of North America's Arctic; in two birch-bark canoes the party surveyed no less than 675 miles of Arctic coastline." "When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration. Hood was one of those who perished on this trip. Weakened by starvation, he was shot through the head by a member of the party turned cannibal." "A highly sensitive and educated man with a painter's eye for detail, Hood was an astute observer of the political and social ways of the North. His journal reveals his awareness, unusual in his time, of the adverse effects of the coming of the Europeans on Native peoples and their environment. Hood's paintings capture the beauty as well as the harshness of the North. His bird paintings in particular are of special artistic and historical interest. Book jacket."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hood, Robert, 1797-1821 -- Travel -- Northwest, Canadian
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Hood, Robert, 1797-1821 fast |
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Hood, Robert, (1797-1821) -- Voyages -- Canada (Nord) ram |
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Natural history -- Northwest, Canadian
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TRAVEL -- Canada -- Prairie Provinces (MB, Sask.)
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HISTORY -- Expeditions & Discoveries.
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Discoveries in geography -- British
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Natural history
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Travel
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Sciences naturelles -- Territoires du Nord-Ouest (Canada)
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Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092590
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British
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Arctic regions -- Description and travel
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Arctic Regions
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Canada -- Canadian Northwest
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Territoires du Nord-Ouest (Canada) -- Descriptions et voyages.
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Arctique -- Découverte et exploration britanniques.
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Canada (nord) -- Descriptions et voyages.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Houston, C. Stuart (Clarence Stuart), 1927-
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| ISBN |
9780773564916 |
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0773564918 |
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1282857096 |
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9781282857094 |
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9786612857096 |
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6612857099 |
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