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This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858(McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)

This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858(McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)


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In 1857 Margaret Penny set off from Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband, Captain William Penny, aboard the whaler "Lady Franklin" on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Canadian Arctic. Wives of British captains rarely sailed with their husbands and Margaret Penny was one of the few women to break with tradition, becoming the first European woman to enter Baffin Island. Incorporating the journal she kept during the expedition with commentary by W. Gilles Ross, this text aims to recreate 19th-century Baffin Island for the modern reader and provides a perspective on artic whaling, the Canadian Arctic, and the interaction between Inuit and European culture at the time of the voyage.

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"I was impressed with the way Ross leads us into the life of the Penny family, the whaling industry, the Inuit culture. His commentary on each entry by Margaret Penny is in fact a self-contained essay on some dimension of the voyage. Although, as a woman, Margaret Penny lacked an authoritative voice, Ross gives her that voice, turning a set of restrained observations into an engaging document." Ronald Rompkey, Department of English, Memorial University "An exceptionally fine book. While the journal is quite important on its own, the book's greatest value is as a vehicle providing Ross an opportunity to share his own vast and detailed knowledge of arctic whaling in general and William Penny specifically. Ross's knowledge of arctic whaling is exceptional and seemingly inexhaustible. His style is engaging, reflective, humane, and appropriately humorous. This is truly the work of a mature scholar at his peak." Richard C. Davis, Department of English, University of Calgary


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  • ISBN-13: 9780773516748
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
  • Weight: 624 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0773516743
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858


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