Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact

From: Environmental History | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact. By Lyle Dick. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary Press, 2001. xxv, 615 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes. Paper $34.95.

Students of mountain flowers learn about Ellesmere Island early in their studies. One plant, the Star-like Saxifrage (Saxifraga foliolosa) caught my attention twenty-five years ago, and as I studied it atop a mountain in Maine, I dreamed about seeing it someday at its northern limit of its range-on Ellesmere. Dreams linger, and a decade later I was tromping up the Weasel River valley on Baffin Island in search ...

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