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- catalog abstract ""To the Arctic by Canoe records the experiences of a remarkable young adventurer, Robert Hood, during the first overland Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin. Franklin's expedition was the first to travel the northern coast of North America's Arctic; in two birch-bark canoes the party surveyed no less than 675 miles of Arctic coastline." "When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration. Hood was one of those who perished on this trip. Weakened by starvation, he was shot through the head by a member of the party turned cannibal." "A highly sensitive and educated man with a painter's eye for detail, Hood was an astute observer of the political and social ways of the North. His journal reveals his awareness, unusual in his time, of the adverse effects of the coming of the Europeans on Native peoples and their environment. Hood's paintings capture the beauty as well as the harshness of the North. His bird paintings in particular are of special artistic and historical interest. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6936409.
- catalog contributor b6936410.
- catalog coverage "Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British.".
- catalog coverage "Northwest Territories Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Northwest, Canadian Description and travel.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""To the Arctic by Canoe records the experiences of a remarkable young adventurer, Robert Hood, during the first overland Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin. Franklin's expedition was the first to travel the northern coast of North America's Arctic; in two birch-bark canoes the party surveyed no less than 675 miles of Arctic coastline." "When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration. Hood was one of those who perished on this trip. Weakened by starvation, he was shot through the head by a member of the party turned cannibal." "A highly sensitive and educated man with a painter's eye for detail, Hood was an astute observer of the political and social ways of the North. His journal reveals his awareness, unusual in his time, of the adverse effects of the coming of the Europeans on Native peoples and their environment. Hood's paintings capture the beauty as well as the harshness of the North. His bird paintings in particular are of special artistic and historical interest. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-208) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxxv, 217 p., [24] p. of col. plates :".
- catalog identifier "0773512225 :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British.".
- catalog spatial "Northwest Territories Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Northwest Territories.".
- catalog spatial "Northwest, Canadian Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Northwest, Canadian.".
- catalog subject "917.1904/1/092 20".
- catalog subject "G665 1819 .H66 1994".
- catalog subject "Hood, Robert, 1797-1821 Journeys Northwest Territories.".
- catalog subject "Hood, Robert, 1797-1821 Travel Northwest, Canadian.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Northwest Territories.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Northwest, Canadian.".
- catalog title "To the Arctic by canoe, 1819-1821 : the journal and paintings of Robert Hood, midshipman with Franklin / edited by C. Stuart Houston.".
- catalog type "text".