FIFTY MORE YEARS BELOW ZERO:
TRIBUTES AND MEDITATIONS FOR THE NAVAL ARCTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY'S FIRST HALF CENTURY

Edited by David W. Norton. Calgary, Alberta, and Fairbanks, Alaska: The Arctic Institute of North America. 576 pages, color and b&w illustrations, index. Softbound. ISBN 0-919034-98-5.

FIFTY MORE YEARS BELOW ZERO is available for purchase through the Iḷisaġvik College bookstore in Barrow, Alaska.  The cost is US $20; Cdn $30. Shipping is US $9.

Please contact Gail Kaliss, Iḷisaġvik College Bookstore Manager, e-mail gail.kaliss@ilisagvik.cc or phone 907-852-1815 to place an order.

Point Barrow is the farthest north point in Alaska. Sticking out between the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, blessed with rich marine and land-based food resources, the area attracted Eskimo settlers who hunt caribou, seal, and whale. More recently, Westerners came seeking whales for baleen and whale oil. In 1883, a young Charles Brower came north to work in the whaling industry. He stayed more than 50 years, married an Iñupiat woman, and wrote a book called Fifty Years Below Zero (University of Alaska Press, 1994). In 1947, the Navy established a laboratory at Barrow (the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory, or NARL) which, in various incarnations, has been the center of research for Arctic Alaska ever since. Fifty More Years Below Zero is a tribute to that laboratory and the people who worked there. The book was the product of NARL's 50th anniversary meeting and celebration held in Barrow in 1997 and sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America.

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