Cold comfort: my love affair with the Arctic // Review

The story began with a visit in 1935 by Tom Manning, explorer and Cambridge graduate, to that university in search of members for an expedition the following year to Foxe Basin, off the west coast of Baffin Island. The objectives of the expedition were to complete the mapping of the Baffin Island co...

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