Cold Comfort : My Love Affair with the Arctic

by Rowley, Graham W.

• ISBN13: 9780773518230
• ISBN10: 0773518231
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

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 map and investigate this uncharted area. Cold Comfort is a personal account of his experiences in the North before World War II and his remembrances of a bygone age in arctic history.

Author Biography

Graham W. Rowley was a research professor of northern and Native studies at Carleton University.

Table of Contents

Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Preparing for an expedition	p. 3
The Eastern Canadian Arctic in 1935	p. 10
Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Churchill	p. 14
Churchill to Bay of Gods Mercy	p. 23
Walrus Island	p. 32
Ship-time at Coral Harbour - Coats Island and Duke of York Bay	p. 40
A long walk to Repulse Bay	p. 48
Preparing for winter travel	p. 55
Repulse to Igloolik - hard start	p. 67
Repulse to Igloolik - easy finish	p. 80
Igloolik to Piling	p. 90
Return from Piling	p. 104
Across Baffin Island to Pond Inlet	p. 110
Pond Inlet	p. 117
Pond Inlet overland to Arctic Bay	p. 123
Spring at Arctic Bay	p. 129
Excavating in Admiralty Inlet	p. 136
South on the Nascopie	p. 145
Return to Repulse Bay	p. 157
Waiting at Repulse Bay	p. 165
Christmas in Lyon Inlet	p. 174
Lyon Inlet to Igloolik	p. 181
Jens Munk Island	p. 190
Through the Baffin Island Mountains	p. 198
Anaularealing to Pond Inlet	p. 207
Pond Inlet to Igloolik	p. 212
A new island	p. 220
Excavating at Abverdjar	p. 226
South to the war	p. 237
Ataguttaaluk	p. 241
Game	p. 242
Life histories	p. 243
Publications from the expedition	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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