Download or read book Arctic Discoveries written by John Bockstoce and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this photographic essay, John Bockstoce presents vivid images from four decades of sailing, researching, and photographing in the Arctic. He has journeyed in Alaska and the North Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, and the North Atlantic. His photographs convey his passion for the stark solitude of land, sky, water, and ice, his admiration for the lives and livelihoods of the Arctic's inhabitants, and his fascination with the haunting traces of a fragile human presence in the Far North.