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Canada and the Idea of North.(Book Review)

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From: Arctic
Date: 20030901
Author:MacLaren, I.S.

By SHERRILL E. GRACE. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 368 p., 44 illus., bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$49.95.

In Canada and the Idea of North, an investigation that crosses academic disciplines and so is properly identified as transdisciplinary, Sherrill Grace follows Wreford Watson (1969) in maintaining that the North is "an idea as much as any physical region that can be mapped and measured for nordicity" (p. xii, 53). But Grace also finds the North more than an idea: she concurs with Stephen Leacock (1936), who "put his finger on what is, for ...

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