When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration. Robert Hood was one of those who perished on this trip. Weakened by starvation, he was shot through the head by a member of the party turned cannibal.
A highly sensitive and educated man with a painter's eye for detail, Hood was an astute observer of the political and social ways of the North. The journal reveals his awareness, unusual in his time, of the adverse effects on Native peoples and their environment of the coming of the Europeans. Hood's paintings capture the beauty as well as the harshness of the North. His bird paintings in particular are of special artistic and historical interest.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-208) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 917.1204/1
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-nt
- ISBN
- 9780773564916 0773512225
- LCCN
- G650 1819
- LCCN Item number
- H66 1994eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (xxxv, 217 p., [24] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00207797 (OCoLC)243600708 (CaOOCEL)407494
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 8
- MAPS 9
- FOREWORD 16
- PREFACE 18
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 20
- PREVIOUS USE OF PORTIONS OF HOOD'S JOURNAL 22
- Introduction 24
- NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF AN EXPEDITION ON DISCOVERY IN NORTH AMERICA 38
- I Gravesend to York Factory 41
- 2 York Factory to Cumberland House 57
- 3 Cumberland House and Pasquia Hills 79
- 4 Account of the Cree Indians 107
- 5 The Buffalo, Climate, Aurora Borealis, Magnetic Phenomena 127
- 6 Cumberland House to Fort Chipewyan 141
- 7 Fort Chipewyan to Fort Enterprize 159
- 8 Fort Enterprize to Point Lake 181
- Epilogue: The Death of Hood 193
- Hood's Paintings: Commentary 203
- The Men of the Expedition 250
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 268
- INDEX 270
- A 270
- B 270
- C 271
- D 272
- E 272
- F 272
- G 273
- H 273
- I 274
- J 274
- K 274
- L 274
- M 274
- N 275
- O 275
- P 275
- Q 276
- R 276
- S 276
- T 277
- U 277
- V 277
- W 277
- X 278
- Y 278
