Exploration & Journeys
Northward Course of Empire
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
2026
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Civilisation has been moving north for four thousand years, he argues, and it will not stop at the tree line. Stefansson spent a decade in the Arctic and came back convinced the polar regions were not a wasteland at all but the next frontier: grazeable, habitable, threaded with trade routes. An explorer's argument, made with just enough evidence to be uncomfortable.
Inside this audiobook
11 chapters
- 1Preface, Introduction.19m
- 2THE NORTHWARD COURSE OF EMPIRE26m
- 3THE NORTH THAT NEVER WAS32m
- 4THE FRUITFUL ARCTIC43m
- 5THE LIVABLE NORTH1h 4m
- 6THE ESTABLISHED ARCTIC INDUSTRIES38m
- 7THE DOMESTICATION OF OVIBOS48m
- 8TRANSPOLAR COMMERCE BY AIR55m
- 9GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS1h 0m
- 10Postscript7m
- 11Appendix40m
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