A Disciplined Geography: Aviation, Science, and the Cold War in Northern Canada, 1945-1960

摘要

Near Lac Bienville in northern Quebec, Nicholas Polunin reflected on recent events. Just a few days before, the botanist had attended an Oxford encaenia, enjoying ceremonies, celebrations, and chats with the Churchills and other notables. But now, after flights across the Atlantic and into the Arctic, there he was, on 8 July 1946, alone in a leaky tent, about to begin a summer of collecting. "Such is modern life," he wrote, "and in this age of science and speed we must accustom ourselves to such vicissitudes."