"The rigours of an arctic experiment": The precarious authority of field practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958 - 1970

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1794-1811

  Powell, Richard C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; FIELDWORK; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548311871     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38294     Document Type: Article

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