Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction xix
7. Reindeer Survey / Exploration, 1901–1928
8. Greenland Beginnings 3
9. Malte and the National Herbarium 15
10. Call of the Northwest 25
11. In Search of Reindeer 33
12. Little Diomede to Kotzebue Sound 45
13. Coastal Alaska by Dogsled 57
14. Travelling Alone: An Accident and its Consequences 69
15. Mail Time in Aklavik 83
16. Schooner Travel on the Arctic Coast 95
17. Return to Aklavik 109
18. Completing the 1927 Reconnaissance 119
19. Looking Back and Forward 131
20. Winter Trail to Great Bear Lake 139
21. Dease Arm and the Northeast Barrens 151
22. Changing Tides and Seasons 163
23. Of Ice and “Flies” and Miserable Dogs 173
24. McTavish Arm and Conjuror Bay 187
25. End of the Investigation 199
26. Canada’s Reindeer Herd, 1929–1935
27. Results of the Survey 217
28. “The Best Laid Plans” 227
29. Field Reports, 1930 239
30. Sad News and Summer in Scandinavia 253
31. Destination Reindeer Station 265
32. The Drive Continues 279
33. The End of the Project 291
34. The National Herbarium in Peace and War, 1936–1977
35. The National Herbarium 309
36. “Publish or Perish” 327
37. Rumbles on the Horizon 349
38. The Problem of Greenland 367
39. Consular Greenland 385
40. Herbarium Interlude 405
41. Greenland’s War of Nerves 421
42. Uncertainties in Wartime Ottawa 439
43. Acting Consuls Dunbar and Porsild 457
44. Last Consular Year 473
45. Road to the Yukon 489
46. The Year the War Ended 511
47. Postwar Settlement 529
48. The “Old Man” of the Herbarium 551
49. Storm Over the Arctic 569
50. Study Year in Europe 595
51. Rocky Mountains and Hudson Bay Lowlands 613
52. Ninth International Botanical Congress 627
53. The Last Years 643
54. Closing the Circle 657
55. Notes 663
56. Sources and Acknowledgments 689
57. Selected References 695
58. Index 705