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The last imaginary place : a human history of the Arctic world / Robert McGhee

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Originally published: Canada : Key Porter Books, 2005. An Arctic vision -- After the Ice Age -- A distant paradise : the Arctic in ancient thought -- A hunter's world -- In Arctic Siberia -- Vikings and Arctic farmers : the Norse Atlantic saga -- Inuit -- Ice and death on the northeast passage -- Martin Frobisher's gold mines -- The rape of Spitsbergen -- Bay of tragedy -- Frozen glory -- The people's land -- An Arctic journey 296 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm