Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Making the Action Visible 1
6. Exploring the North
7. “A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art” 17
8. How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change 39
9. Technological Heroes 57
10. Colonizing the North
11. Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes 85
12. In Search of Instructive Models 110
13. Working the North
14. Traversal Technology Transfer 137
15. The Sheep, the Market, and the Soil 155
16. More Things on Heaven and Earth 174
17. A Touch of Frost 195
18. Imagining the North
19. North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada 223
20. Iceland and the North 247
21. The Networked North 268
22. Selected Bibliography 280
23. Contributors 289
24. Index 294