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Gisli Palsson

Travelling Passions

The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples. His three expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the early 1900s, as well as his expertise in northern anthropology, helped create his public image as an heroic, Hemingway-esque figure in the annals of twentieth-century exploration. But the emotional and private life of Stefansson the man have remained hidden, until now. New evidence of this other life has recently been discovered: a collection of love letters between Stefansson and his fiance Orpha Cecil Smith were found in a New Hampshire flea market; Stefansson's field di… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-88755-390-5
  • EAN: 9780887553905
  • Produktnummer: 32914114
  • Verlag: University of Manitoba Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 374 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 14'736 KB

Über den Autor


Gisli Palsson is the author, editor, or co-editor of 15 books, including Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of V. Stefansson, Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, and The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn. In April 2000, he was awarded the Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science for excellence in the field of marine affairs. He is currently a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland.

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