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THE MAKING OF AN EXPLORER: GEORGE HUBERT WILKINS AND THE CANADIAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1913-1916. By STUART E. JENNESS. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7735-2798-2. xxii + 418 p., maps, b & w illus., appendices, notes. Hardbound. Cdn$49.95.

Hubert Wilkins, a young Australian photographer, was seconded by the Gaumont Company to Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 as official photographer. Having sailed north on board Karluk, he joined the group led by Stefansson that left the ship to go ashore on a hunting trip after ...

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