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Beyond The Imaginary Gates - Journeys in the Fjord Region of North-East Greenland (Hardcover)
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Beyond The Imaginary Gates - Journeys in the Fjord Region of North-East Greenland (Hardcover)
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There are now precious few places left on earth with which we do
not feel familiar, if not from first hand experience then at least
from the perspective of the armchair traveller - and fewer still
where the camera has not yet prescribed our vision. An unrivalled
collection of images of one of the last unsullied wildernesses in
the world: the vast, uninhabited spaces of north-east Greenland.
These beautiful, majestic and poetic landscapes exist in one of the
harshest environments on earth. Roy traces the historical
background with a brief outline of Greenland's early exploration.
He documents the poignant traces of the Inuit tribe - their winter
houses, summer tent circles and graves and enigmatic stone mosaics
- and the structures left by the European trappers who once plied
their dog-sledges in the lonely fjords. Iain Roy's first expedition
to Greenland was in 1982, to the mountainous region of the south
near Cape Farewell. He was a member of a small group of Arctic
enthusiasts who shared a love of wild spaces and whose ambitions
were fuelled by the accounts of earlier pioneers - early whaling
and expedition journals and memoirs of scientists and trappers from
the pre-war period. The group pooled their resources in order to
reach remote corners of a faraway region that had become their
common obsession. Roy himself has since made ten expeditions to the
region.
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