The big thaw : travels in the melting north /
'The Big Thaw' details not only the ecological drama taking place in the far north, but the struggles of its native people, the Inuit, to preserve their way of life, and the international battle over which country actually owns the Arctic and its wealth of natural resources.
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Mississauga, ON :
John Wiley & Sons Canada,
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| 100 | 1 | |a Struzik, Edward, |d 1954- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The big thaw : |b travels in the melting north / |c Ed Struzik ; foreword by Gerald Butts. |
| 260 | |a Mississauga, ON : |b John Wiley & Sons Canada, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 278 p., [16] p. of plates : |b col. ill., map ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Nanuq: In the Tracks of the Great Wanderer (Southern Beaufort Sea) -- The Lost World (Brintnell Glacier, Northwest Territories) -- Changing Landscapes (Kluane National Park, Yukon) -- In Northern Mists (Aboard the Louis St. Laurent) -- Arctic Outbreak (Repulse Bay, Nunavut) -- Waking the Dead (Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories) -- IQ (Off the Coast of Northwestern Hudson Bay) -- Caribou Crash (Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island) -- Rich Squirrel, Poor Squirrel (Mile 1004 Alaska Highway, Yukon) -- The Coldest War (Canadian Forces Maritime Warfare Centre, Halifax). | |
| 520 | 8 | |a 'The Big Thaw' details not only the ecological drama taking place in the far north, but the struggles of its native people, the Inuit, to preserve their way of life, and the international battle over which country actually owns the Arctic and its wealth of natural resources. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Climatic changes |z Arctic regions. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Habitat (Ecology) |z Arctic regions. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global warming. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global environmental change. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Arctic regions |x Environmental conditions. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Arctic regions |x Climate. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Inuit |x Social conditions. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Arctic regions |x Politics and government. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Climatic changes |z Arctic regions. | |
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