When supplies ran out, the return trek across the Barrens became one of the most tragic incidents in the history of Arctic exploration. Robert Hood was one of those who perished on this trip. Weakened by starvation, he was shot through the head by a member of the party turned cannibal. A highly sensitive and educated man with a painter's eye for detail, Hood was an astute observer of the political and social ways of the North. The journal reveals his awareness, unusual in his time, of the adverse effects on Native peoples and their environment of the coming of the Europeans. Hood's paintings capture the beauty as well as the harshness of the North. His bird paintings in particular are of special artistic and historical interest.
- ISBN10 6612857099
- ISBN13 9786612857096
- Publish Date 26 October 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 280
- Language English