Download or read book Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic written by Richard J. Diubaldo and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) was Canada's greatest modern arctic explorer, theorist, writer, and pioneer ethnologist. For the first quarter of the twentieth century his ideas captured the imagination of Canadians and gave them a sense of Canada's nor