Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic, Second Edition Volume 13

by Graham W. Rowley

Book Overview

In 1936 the least-known area of Canada was the west coast of Baffin Island, part of which was still unexplored. Graham Rowley went to the Arctic as the archaeologist of a small British expedition to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773530053
• ISBN13: 9780773530058
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Let's go north!

Rowley's fresh and colloquial style of narrative makes you feel at home in the arctic. While you read you can feel the cold wind in your face, you hear the dogs breathing and the ice cracking and you smell the fresh winter air. You start longing for the moment when you can meet all those friendly Inuit. And when you finally get to the arctic you will see that not much has changed.