Gisli Palsson, Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.(Book review)

Manitoba History | February 1, 2006| | Copyright

Gisli Palsson, Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson Translated from the Icelandic by Keneva Kunz Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005, 374 pages. ISBN: 0887551793, $39.95 (hardcover)

In recent years, the work of Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918) has become a veritable publishing industry. In 1991, the diaries of anthropologist Diamond Jenness were published (Jenness 1991), in 2001 the diaries of Vilhjamur Stefannson (Palsson, 2001), in 2004 a biography of George Wilkins (photographer) based on his ...

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