Writing on Ice [signed]

An extensive account of the often elusive anthropology of a famed Arctic explorer.Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), son of Icelandic immigrants in Manitoba and North Dakota, was affiliated with Harvard's Anthropology Department and Peabody Museum. His association with Dartmouth began in 1929, and his later visits laid the foundation for the polar study program formally established in 1953. Gisli Palsson is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Anthropology at University of Iceland.