Ebook: Maine to Greenland: exploring the maritime far northeast
Author: Wilfred E. Richard
- Tags: Human ecology--Atlantic Provinces, Human ecology--Greenland, Human ecology--Maine, TRAVEL--Canada--Atlantic Provinces (NB NF NS PE), TRAVEL--Europe--Iceland & Greenland, TRAVEL--United States--Northeast--New England (CT MA ME NH RI VT), Travel, Human ecology, Pictorial works, Atlantic Provinces -- Description and travel, Atlantic Provinces -- Pictorial works, Maine -- Description and travel, Maine -- Pictorial works, Greenland -- Description and travel, Greenland -- Pictorial works, Human ecology -- A
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Smithsonian
- City: Atlantic Provinces;Greenland;Maine;Washington;D.C;Canada
- Language: English
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Maine to Greenland is a testament to one of the world's great - and little acknowledged - geographic regions: the Maritime Far Northeast. The authors' essays and Wilfred Richard's photography documenting their research and personal odysseys of more than three decades provide a dramatic explication of the power of the far northeast concept. We learn about the history, environments, and cultures of the region, and the idea of how small-scale societies have adapted to rather than changed their environments, as people further south tended to do. The book has a strong message about the impacts of climate change in the north and the need for appropriate technology and adaptation. It promotes understanding about a part of the world--the northwest Atlantic coastal region--that once was well-known to Europeans and Americans, but which sank into obscurity at the close of the great schooner fisheries and WWII, and which now is re-emerging as a result of climate change, the political emergence of Native people, and the opening of the Arctic Ocean.
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