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The Last Imaginary Place

The Last Imaginary Place

by Robert McGhee

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 296 PAGES

In this wide-ranging portrait of the Arctic, McGhee combines a lifetime of archaeological field work, history and travel, touching on whalers and ivory-hunters, explorers, fur-traders, Viking farmers and, most particularly, the native peoples in a series of illuminating essays. With 37 black-and-white illustrations, 31 color photographs and nine maps. Published in conjunction with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where McGhee is curator of Arctic archaeology.  (ARC164, $18.00)


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