Event: 'A History Of The Arctic: Nature, Exploration And Exploitation' Print
  Greater Boston
Events taking place in the Boston area.
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2013 At 02:00 pm
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Geological Lecture Hall at Harvard Museum of Natural History

26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

 

A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration, and Exploitation

Author talk and booksigning with John Mcannon

A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation

Polar historian John McCannon provides an engaging overview of the arctic region since the Stone Age, chronicling the history of indigenous populations, polar explorations, territorial conflicts, industry, and the profound changes the region is witnessing as a result of natural resource depletion and large-scale glacial melting. Regular Museum admission rates apply.