THE LAST IMAGINARY PLACE: A Human History Of The Arctic World. by McGhee, Robert - (2005.)

New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, (2005.). Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. "Combining anthropology, history, and personal memoir, this book dispels romanticized notions of the Artic as a world apart, exotic and isolated, revealing a land more fascinating than we had imagined. We meet Viking farmers, whalers and ivory-hunters, and explorers racing to reach the North Pole. Most important, McGhee offers more coverage of the native peoples of the Arctic, societies that other histories usually neglect. . . [he] follows the Inuit as they cross the Arctic in search of metal, and reveals the dangers that native people face today from pollution and global warming." Photographs. Suggestions for further reading, index. 296 pp.