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• Title:Vilhjalmur Stefansson : Arctic adventurer / Tom Henighan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Henighan, Tom.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Dundurn Press, ©2009.
  

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  • Call Number: G635.S7 H45 2009
    
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  • Call Number: G635.S7 H45 2009
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962.
  Explorers--Canada--Biography.
  Anthropologists--Canada--Biography.
  Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Canadian.
  
• Description:216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  
• Series:Quest library.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-208) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781550028744 (paper)
  155002874X (paper)
  
• Contents:1. First Glimpse of "Stef"
  2. Childhood, Youth, and College Days
  3. First Trip to the North, 1906-1907
  4. Second Expedition: Meeting the "White Eskimos"
  5. Canadian Arctic Expedition: Five Years in the North
  6. Man of the World
  7. Reindeer, Wrangel Island Again, and the Last of Canada
  8. Marriage and a Matter of Diet
  9. Trials of a Different Order
  10. Explorer's Passion
  11. Stefansson as Explorer
  12. Stefansson and the North
  Epilogue: Ice Follies: Dialogues in Limbo
  Chronology of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.