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Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Anthropologica; 1/1/2007; Southcott, Chris; 857 words
; ... Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Winnipeg: University of ... been a number of books about Vilhjalmur Stefansson over the past two decades ... particularly titillating to Stefansson fans, it is much more than ...
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The Arctic Hedonist. (At Large And At Small).(arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson)
American Scholar; 1/1/2003; Philonoe; 4546 words
; ... old volumes with tissue-thin maps tucked in pockets at the back ... For two decades I had read Stefansson's laconic references to Fannie ... occurred to me that she was Stefansson's mistress; after all, he noted ... who has interviewed four of Stefansson's Inuit grandchildren, writes ... partner, or key ...
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Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vihjalmur Stefansson
Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2002; Marden, J; 161 words
; Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Gish Palsson (Ed.). 2001. University Press of ... 1584651199. Anthropologist, explorer, and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson made three major expeditions to the Alaskan and ...
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He Made the Arctic Friendly
Scandinavian Review; 4/1/2004; Clarkson, Adrienne; 2968 words
; Vilhjalmur Stefansson, a Canadian-born American of Icelandic ... address, which is excerpted here. VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON [WAS] A MAN WHOSE NATURAL abilities ... So what have we learned about Vilhjalmur Stefansson that helps us with our northern ...
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Excavating the North
Literary Review of Canada; 11/1/2007; McGoogan, Ken; 2099 words
; ... Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson Gsli P;lsson Translated ... Icelandic-American explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson has explainedhis own and ... Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The strength of this book ...
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Arctic Hedonist. (The Reader Replies).(Letter to the Editor)
American Scholar; 3/22/2003; Crow, James F.; 436 words
; ... me to a lecture by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. I don't recall much ... thoroughly Icelandic. Vilhjalmur was so hard to pronounce ... the last century, Stefansson lectured several times ... at the university, Stefansson came again. He agreed ...
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Foolish optimism kills explorers; Four men set out to discover the 'Friendly Arctic' in 1921. Only their female servant returned alive.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
The Christian Science Monitor; 1/6/2004; 739 words
; ... Organized by famed explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the 1921 expedition to Wrangel ... Ice Master, which described Stefansson's earlier effort to discover ... of misplaced admiration for Stefansson, four young men from Canada ...
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Adventure: In a word, it's `risk'; If you go You need to be prepared mentally and physically for an adventure, says Jerry Mallett, president of the Adventure Travel Society, an industry trade association. If you're considering a trip with an outfitter, Mallett recommends that you: Ask the state tourism board, national park or national forest for a list of licensed outfitters. Check the advertisements in magazines such as Outside, Backpacker, Walking and Men's Journal for names of firms. Once you've decided on a trip, make sure the outfitter is up to the job: Ask how long the outfitter has been in business. Get a copy of the firm's insurance certificate and outfitter's permit, issued by national parks and forests where the firm operates. Get references from people who have taken the same trip with the outfitter. Find out if the guides have medical training and any other training, as naturalists, for instance. Be sure the outfitter asks about your medical history, outdoor experience and expectations for the trip. It's the outfitter's responsibility to match you to an appropriate trip.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/8/1996; NANCY SHUTE; 1399 words
; ... of the will to experiment." Vilhjalmur Stefansson, American Arctic explorer of ... rica's Congo barely 100 years ago; Stefansson voyaged in the western Arctic ... been democratized in ways that Stefansson and Hillary could never have ...
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Escape From An Icy Grave.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 12/29/2001; 572 words
; ... geographical knowledge. The anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for example, was convinced that there was a lost ... CAPTION(S): EXPLORER: Leader of the expedition Vilhjalmur Stefansson ENTOMBED: The Karluk is trapped in the ice north ...
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Books received.
American Review of Canadian Studies; 3/22/2006; 1289 words
; ... Palsson, Gisli. Travelling Passions: The Hidden Lifes of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2006 ... 2005. xi + 305 pp. $26.95 paper. Palmer, Andie Diane. Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc ...
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