| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.3

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Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact. By Lyle Dick. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary Press, 2001. xxv, 615 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes. Paper $34.95.

Students of mountain flowers learn about Ellesmere Island early in their studies. One plant, the Star-like Saxifrage (Saxifraga foliolosa) caught my attention twenty-five years ago, and as I studied it atop a mountain in Maine, I dreamed about seeing it someday at its northern limit of its range—on Ellesmere. Dreams linger, and a decade later I was tromping up the Weasel River valley on Baffin Island in search of the Star-like Saxifrage. Near a monument marking the Arctic Circle, we struck up a conversation with two geologists on their way home from Discovery Bay twelve hundred miles to the north. As we parted, one said 0The only thing that stands between you and Ellesmere Island is money and a six-hour flight from Resolute.

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