Ice Country soft cover
- Author: Mary Morton Cowan
- SKU: 1597s
- ISBN: 0897252209
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(MAINE) ICE COUNTRY: One Boy's Adventure in the Arctic with Commander Donald MacMillan. By Mary Morton Cowan. 160pp. Photos, dj. 5½x8½. 1995.
Donald MacMillan was a world-renowned Artic explorer, expert sailor, and research scientist, whose pioneering work with the natives of Canada and Northwest Greenland spanned 50 years. Between 1921 and 1954 he led 18 Arctic expeditions in his custom-built schooner the Bowdoin, greatly advancing our knowledge of the Arctic and of Eskimo lore.
Ice Country is a fictional story about this very real explorer and one of the many teenaged boys who made up a portion of his crew in the summer of 1950. The depth of the author's research on MacMillan, on the Eskimo, and the Arctic combines with the dramatic story line to produce a vividly readable book for younger adults.
