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Borderline : la vie sur le cercle arctique
Illustrated book on the daily life of residents from eight different countries around the circumpolar Arctic, and captured by London-based photographer Cristian Barnett. French translation of the book “Life on the Line: People of the Arctic Circle”. (Cristian Barnett (photograph) & Huw Lewis-Jones, Paris, Paulsen, 2014, 207 p.)
Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Inuit, Photographs
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- Printed document
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- Print Document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Cartes anciennes de l’Arctique (Université Laval)
Collection of the University Laval’s Library consisting of some twenty maps dating from the 16th to the 20th century. These documents are the work of famous cartographers such as Gerardus Mercator, Jan Jansson, Guillaume de L’Isle and Willem Blaeu, but also of explorers like Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier.
Subjects: Cartography, Circumpolar Arctic, Maps
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Circling the midnight sun: Culture and change in the invisible Arctic
Over the course of three years, James Raffan circumnavigated the globe at 66.6 degrees latitude: the Arctic Circle. He set out to put a human face on climate change. In Circling the Midnight Sun, Raffan presents a warm-hearted, engaging portrait of the circumpolar world, but also a deeply affecting story of societies and landscapes in the throes of enormous change. (James Raffan, Toronto, HarperCollins Canada, 2014, 400 p.)
Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Climate change
Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database (ASTIS)
Records of publications on human health, including public health, medicine, and human biology in the circumpolar region. Subset of the ASTIS database.
Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Health, Indigenous peoples, Medicine, Public health
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- Free - Reference only
- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
- Reference only
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- Health Sciences
Critical norths : space, nature, theory
Collection of essays about the North from a colonial, environmental, climate, and political perspective. (Sarah Jaquette Ray et Kevin Maier, Fairbanks, University of Alaska Press, 2017, 336 p.)
Subjects: Nordicity, Circumpolar Arctic, Climate change, Indigenous peoples, Northern studies
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- Printed document
- Reserved Access
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- Print Document
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Historical maps: Arctic (BAnQ)
Corpus of fifteen old maps dating from the 17th to the 20th century. These documents bear witness to the Arctic expeditions and explorations carried out by several generations of European explorers in search of the Northwest Passage. These documents reflect the advancement of knowledge of the Arctic coastline of North America. The information on these maps is based among other things on the discoveries of Martin Frobisher, William Baffin, etc.
Subjects: Baffin bay, Northwest Passage, Arctic archipelago, Cartography, Canadian arctic, Greenland, Davis Strait, Hudson Strait, Circumpolar Arctic, Maps
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences