Maine to Greenland Exploring the Maritime Far

A rich photographic and text exploration of the history, climate, geography, native peoples, and lifestyles along the northwest Atlantic corridor. Maine to Greenlandis a testament to one of the world's great - and little acknowledged - geographic regions: the Maritime Far Northeast. Will Richard's essays and photography documenting his personal odyssey of more than two 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 "green" message at the same time that 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.

WILLIAM W. FITZHUGH is the director of the Arctic Studies Center and curator in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Fitzhugh has conducted archaeology from Maine to Greenland and is currently excavating Basque and Inuit sites in Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. WILFRED E. RICHARD is a geographer with a concentration in environmental studies, photographer, and Registered Maine Guide. Richard is a research collaborator with the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center, a research fellow at the Uummannaq Polar Institute in Greenland, and serves on the board of the Maine chapter of the International Appalachian Trail.

Preface by William W. Fitzhugh and Wilfred E. Richard
CHAPTER 1. EXPLORING THE MARITIME FAR NORTHEAST
Polar Explorers: Peary and MacMillan by Susan A. Kaplan
CHAPTER 2. CLIMATE CHALLENGE AND HUMAN ADAPTATION
Transit of the Petermann Ice Island by Wilfred E. Richard
Coastal Ecological Dynamics of the Northwest Atlantic by Walter Adey
CHAPTER 3. MAINE –THE SOUTHERN ANCHOR
CHAPTER 4. THE CANADIAN MARITIME PROVINCES
The International Appalachian Trail by Wilfred E. Richard
Seal Hunting Controversy
L’Anse aux Meadows Norse Site
CHAPTER 5. QUEBEC’S LOWER NORTH SHORE – GATEWAY TO NORTH AMERICA
Rev. Robert Bryan: The Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Voyaging to Quebec by Wilfred E. Richard
CHAPTER 6. LABRADOR – SETTLERS, MORAVIANS, AND INUIT
Exploring the Torngat Coast by Wilfred E. Richard
CHAPTER 7. NUNAVUT – INUIT, WHALERS, AND EXPLORERS
Adventures on the Floe Edge Around Bylot Island by Wilfred E. Richard
Auyuittuq National Park by Wilfred E. Richard
Quttiniroaaq National Park by Wilfred E. Richard
CHAPTER 8. GREENLAND – SOUTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
CHAPTER 9. GREENLAND – NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
From Ilulissat (Jakobshaun), Greenland to Owl’s Head, Maine by Wilfred E. Richard
JOURNEY’S END
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

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Maine to Greenland Exploring the Maritime Far Northeast

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