Arctic articles from December 1996

Arctic archives from December 1996

Serologic evidence of Brucella spp. exposure in Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) and ringed seals (Phoca hispida) of Arctic Canada.
December 1, 1996... (Received 14 February 1996; accepted in revised form 17 July 1996) ABSTRACT. The first presumptive evidence of Brucella infection in marine mammals of Arctic Canada is reported. Blood samples were collected from 248 ringed seals (Phoca...

Northern Copper Inuit: a history.
December 1, 1996... This is a fascinating and useful book, and a posthumous one. For 17 years Richard Condon visited and wrote about the people of Holman, a small Copper Inuit community on the western coast of Victoria Island. In September 1995, he was killed when...

Northern aboriginal communities: economies and development.
December 1, 1996... The changing landscape of aboriginal land claims, employment equity, and other government policies is opening up new opportunities and a new optimism among aboriginal peoples. They can increasingly shape their own economic futures within local,...

Thelon: a river sanctuary.
December 1, 1996... Following books about the Back River (1981) and the Kazan River (edited with C. Hanks, 1992), peripatetic writer and northern aficionado David F. Pelly has produced a third popular celebration of an arctic river and its surrounding lands,...

People of the bays and headlands: anthropological history and the fate of communities in the unknown Labrador.
December 1, 1996... The more substantial (and serious) of John Kennedy's two new books, People of the Bays and Headlands, provides a historical account of the dozen or so communities that dot Labrador's southeastern coastline, a rugged expanse of subarctic terrain...

Labrador village.
December 1, 1996... The more substantial (and serious) of John Kennedy's two new books, People of the Bays and Headlands, provides a historical account of the dozen or so communities that dot Labrador's southeastern coastline, a rugged expanse of subarctic terrain...

Naturalist's guide to the Arctic.
December 1, 1996... Naturalists with an interest in the Arctic have available many books that cover individual subjects, classes, or species. Dr. Pielou has written a book that surveys a variety of topics, ranging from the reason for the midnight sun, through...

When the wind was a river: Aleut evacuation in World War II.
December 1, 1996... This important and well-organized book provides the first detailed and incisive account of what happened to the Aleuts as a consequence of their evacuation during World War II. Their relocation to absurdly inadequate locations, where they would...

Eigil Greve Knuth 1903-1996.
December 1, 1996... The Nestor of Danish polar explorers is dead. Between 11 and 12 March 1996, Eigil Knuth expired in his apartment at Carl Johansgade 10 in Copenhagen's East End, where he had lived for more than 60 years. It was his stronghold through all those...