Finding the Arctic: History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudsons Bay [Paperback]

The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. InFinding the Arctic, the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects some of the most memorable and moving of these stories and weaves them around his own story of a 2,500-mile snowmobile expedition across arctic Alaska and Canada.

During that trip, Sturm and six companions followed a circuitous route that brought them to many of the most historic spots in the North. They stood in the footsteps of their predecessors, experienced the landscape and the weather, and gained an intimate perspective on notable historical events, all chronicled here by Sturm. Written with humor and pathos,Finding the Arcticis a classic tale of adventure travel. And throughout the book,Sturm, with his thirty-eight years of experience in the North, emerges as an excellent guide for any who wish to understand the Arctic of today and yesterday.   

Matthew Sturmis a leader in the Arctic climate change research community and has led over twenty-five expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. He is the author ofApun: The Arctic Snow, also published by the University of Alaska Press.

Preface
Introduction

1. Tracks North
    Ballad of the Arctic Science Bandits
    Changes North
2. Rosebud Realities
    Quest’s Older Cousin—The Iditarod
3. Porcupine Hospitality
    Quarantine Island
4. Poignant Passing: The Mad Trapper of Rat River
    Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River
5. Big Mac
    Snow and Ice Roads
6. Finding the Douglas Cabin
    Black Lake Ice
    The Shield and the Cordilleran
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