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Description
In Northwest Greenland, Richard Vaughan narrates
for the first time the little-known history of
Avanersuaq, quottheplace in the farthest
north.quotThis small strip on the
northwestern coast of Greenland has supported the
most northerly human settlement on the globe,
and remains one of the last frontiers on earth.
Its geography - an arid, desolate sheet of ice
on one side, and the sea on the other - has
isolated the land and its few inhabitants from
the pressures for change experienced in other
parts of the world.In the nineteenth
century, explorers were not looking for
Avanersuaq they were en route to other goals -
whale hunts off the Canadian coast, the search
for the Northwest Passage, or for the missing
explorer John Franklin. It is not until Robert
Peary's appearance in 1891 that Northwest
Greenland becomes a focal point for exploration,
anthropological study, and the development of
the region's resources.Vaughan discusses all
these topics, and provides information on
the quest for Cape York meteorites in the late
1800s, scientific interest in the local Eskimos -
the Inuhuit, as they call themselves - and
Peary's expeditions across the Inland
Ice sheet.Cultural histories usually give only
cursory attention to the environment, but
Vaughan integrates the people and their habitat
as inextricably as they are linked in nature.
Early explorers found in Avanersuaq a strange
mixture of ice, desert and rock, with
surprising pockets of vegetation, and wildlife
that ranged from the narwhal and polar bear to
the small dovekie, or little auk. The Inuhuit,
they found, used their scarce resources wisely,
with a lifestyle that centered on nomadic
hunting.Vaughan takes a careful look at the
changes exploration and settlement brought to
Avanersuaq and its people, from the prehistoric,
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subsistence lifestyle of the Inuhuit, to the
Danish colonization of northern Greenland in
the twentieth century. The construction of Thule
Air Base in the 1950s is also given
prominent attention. Indeed, Americans bulk large
in these pages, which describe the expeditions
of Elisha Kent Kane, Isaac Hayes, and Charles F.
Hall, as well as Peary's.