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The Spell of the North (German language edition) - Price: $29.95
by J.F.Boden + Gunter Myrell (Editors), ISBN: 978-3-924324-09-4
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„Im Bannkreis des Nordens“, 320 pages in 5-colors, is the only comprehensive popular-scientific book about the entire Arctic: Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Siberia. With enthralling essays by reputed historians, ethnographers, archaeologists from the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Russia, the reader is invited to a fascinating journey into the unknown expanses of the circumpolar world in the footsteps of the famous Arctic explorers, describing the history and cultures of the many indigenous peoples of the Polar Circle as well as their future in post-colonial times, and explaining the Arctic’s fauna and flora. Featuring 380 breathtaking photos and rare archival documents. Numerous especially drafted maps with explorers’ routes and many other “riches.” New English-language introductory essay by Dr. Steven Young as bonus.
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Biography :
James R. Gibson, Professor emeritus for Historical Geography at York University, Toronto, is a renowned expert on the Russian expansions towards the Far East in the 18th and 19th century, therefore his field of expertise is Siberia and Russian-America.
Stephen Haycox is a specialist in the History of Civilization and teaches as a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The focal point of his research are the indigenous peoples of Alaska as well as the role of Alaska in the history of the American West.
Jens-Christian Manniche is professor for Historical Geography and Social History at Aarhus University and in the 1990s held a professorial guest chair for History of Civilization and Social History at the University of Nuuk, Greenland.
Ole Marquardt was lecturer for Danish history and History of Ideas at Aarhus University and is since 1988 professor for History of Civilization and Social History at the University of Nuuk. His expertise and focal point of research are the demographic and socio-economic developments in Greenland during colonial times.
Robert McGhee has graduated in the field of Arctic Archaeology and today is an internationally well-known Curator with the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. His expertise is the early history of the Arctic’s indigenous peoples.
William R. Morrison has taught History at various Canadian universities and today is a widely respected professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he has specialized in the History of Development of northern Canada.
Peter P. Schweitzer has studied Philosophy, Political Sciences, and Ethnology at the University of Vienna. He graduated there with a thesis about the Ethno-History of Chukotka. Since 1990 he is a professor for Ethnology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and much liked by his students. He also holds guest chairs at the universities of Vienna and Kasachstan.
Book Review :
“The authors of this incredibly intelligent and all-embracing book present in downright encyclopedic detail an impressive picture of life in the Arctic regions in the early centuries and in today’s time…Hardly any subject remains unexplained: from politics and economics via problems of societies or threats to the environment all the way to art works and the entry of ‘modern life’ into the small settlements of the polar people…Far from romanticising the high North, this book offers a many-layered and precise picture. The innumerable and enchanting pictures are accommodating exactly this objective: no voluptuous landscapes in the ‘eternal ice,’ but informative scenes from the every day of a strange world…”
( Freddy Langer, FAZ-Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s foremost daily)
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There are many other very favorable reviews from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, Luxemburg etc.)
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