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Arctic: Culture and Climate Amber Lincoln, Jago Cooper, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum October 2020 The Arctic, often imagined as one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, has been inhabited for nearly 30,000 years. The various communities that call the region home have found ingenious ways to harness and celebrate their environment, and to co-exist with its wildlife. Today, man-made climate change is transforming the region at an unprecedented rate, bringing with it a new set of challenges. Arctic: Culture and Climate explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its people through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks and voices โ from past and present โ in this beautifully illustrated collection of essays to show how Arctic people and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change.
Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories
Nahanni Then and Now Vivien Lougheed Hancock House Publishers August 2021
Norma Dunning Douglas & McIntyre March 2021
Nahanni Then and Now
Drawing on both experience
explores the geography and
and cultural memory,
history of the mountainous
Norma Dunning brings
country drained by the South
together six powerful new
Nahanni River, based on
short stories centred on
Lougheedโs observations as
modern-day Inuk characters
a hiker and paddler, and on
in Tainna. Ranging from
her thorough research โ
homeless to extravagantly
including interviews and
wealthy, from spiritual to
correspondence with the
jaded, young to elderly, and from alive to deceased, Dunningโs
people, and the descendants of the people, who made that
characters are united by shared feelings of alienation,
history. A journey to the abandoned mining sites of Tungsten,
displacement and loneliness resulting from their experiences
Howardโs Pass, Lened Creek and Union Carbide leads to a tour
in southern Canada. Winner of a Governor Generalโs Literary
of the ruins, a history of the Lake and stories of trappers,
Award in 2021, Norma Dunningโs masterful storytelling uses
scientists and climbers who explored the South Nahanni,
humour and incisive detail to create compelling characters
the Flat, and Glacier Lake near the Cirque of the Unclimbables.
who must rely on their wits, artistic talent, senses of humour
It includes a summary of events that led to the expansion
and spirituality for survival.
of Nahanni Park.
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