Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Why Is Vilhjalmur Stefansson Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Vilhjalmur Stefansson was an Arctic explorer and ethnologist. He was born in Manitoba, Canada. Early life Stefansson, born William Stephenson, was born at Arnes, Manitoba, Canada, in 1879. His parents had emigrated from Iceland to Manitoba two years earlier. After losing two children during a period of devastating flooding, the family moved to Dakota Territory in 1880 and homesteaded a mile southwest of the village of Mountain in Thingvalla Township of Pembina County.

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Published Works

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"THE FRIENDLY ARCTIC". (1922) (99)
Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. 1913-1918 / (89)
The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic expedition of the American museum : preliminary ethnological report / by Vilhjalmur Stefánsson. (85)
The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum : preliminary ethnological report. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 14, pt. 1 (53)
THE ESKIMO TRADE JARGON OF HERSCHEL ISLAND (1909) (35)
The Friendly Arctic; The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1943) (35)
The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher (23)
The Northward Course Of Empire (1923) (21)
Unsolved mysteries of the Arctic (1939) (20)
My life with the Eskimos (18)
OBSERVATIONS ON THREE CASES OF SCURVY (1918) (17)
The friendly Arctic; the story of five years in Polar regions, by Vilhjalmur Stefansson .... (15)
To the Arctic!: The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times (1970) (15)
Discovery : the autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1964) (14)
New Compass of the World: A Symposium on Political Geography (1949) (13)
The adventure of Wrangel island (12)
Cancer : disease of civilization? : an anthropological and historical study (1961) (9)
Great adventures and explorations from the earliest times to the present, as told by the explorers themselves (1947) (9)
Voyages of Martin Frobisher: Review@@@The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-West, A. D. 1576-8. (1938) (9)
A DILEMMA IN VITAMINS. (1939) (6)
The Region of Maximum Inaccessibility in the Arctic (1920) (5)
Ultima Thule: Further Mysteries of the Arctic (1942) (4)
MEAT DIET: BLOOD AS AN ANTISCORBUTIC FACTOR. (1936) (4)
Iceland, the first American republic (1943) (4)
The American Far North (1939) (4)
Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Reports (4)
THE ICELANDIC COLONY IN GREENLAND (1906) (4)
The Arctic in fact and fable (1945) (3)
Underground Ice in Northern Alaska (3)
The Diets of Explorers (1944) (3)
On the Mackenzie River (3)
The standardization of error (3)
Arctic Controversy: The Letters of John Rae: Review@@@Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-55 (1954) (3)
Misconceptions about Life in the Arctic (2)
Prehistoric and present commerce among the Arctic coast Eskimo, by V. Stefánsson. (2)
The Activities of the Canadian Arctic Expedition from October, 1916, to April, 1918 (1918) (2)
Northwest to Fortune. (1958) (2)
The Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913) (2)
The Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 to 1918 (1921) (2)
Northern Alaska in Winter (1)
Food of the Ancient and Modern Stone Age Man1 (1937) (1)
Victoria Island and the Surrounding Seas (1)
Causes of Eskimo Birth-rate Increase (1956) (1)
Arctic America as a Pioneer Belt@@@The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1922) (1)
Routes to Alaska (1941) (1)
Icelandic Beast and Bird Lore (1906) (1)
Some Details of Mr. Stefansson's Geographical Work (1)
Plover Land and Borden Land (1921) (1)
Here is Alaska (1959) (1)
Eskimo longevity in Northern Alaska. (1958) (1)
Notes on the Theory and Treatment of Diseases among the Mackenzie River Eskimo (1)
Ultima Thule. Further Mysteries of the Arctic (1941) (1)
THE ARCTIC FLYING OF CAPTAIN WILKINS AND LIEUTENANT EIELSON. (1927) (0)
The Technique of Arctic Winter Travel (0)
Stefansson's Expedition (0)
The North that never was. (0)
The domestication of ovibos. (0)
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Detective@@@Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic (1939) (0)
The Eskimo Word "Iglu" (1931) (0)
The livable North. (0)
Some Problems of Arctic Travel: After a Forced Landing: Discussion (1929) (0)
An Eskimo Discovery of an Island North of Alaska (1934) (0)
The Musk Ox in Arctic Islands (1923) (0)
The "Frostie Seas" of the Northwest@@@The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8 (1938) (0)
The established arctic industries. (0)
Travels after the Sun came back. (0)
Preparations for a lifework of exploration. (0)
Polar Temperatures and Coal Measures (0)
A spring journey in an Eskimo skin boat. (0)
An arctic Christmas with an English country gentleman. (0)
Across Arctic AmericaFra Grønland til Stillehavet; Rejser og Mennesker. Fra 5. Thule-Expedition, 1921–24 (1927) (0)
How I learned to hunt seals. (0)
INVESTIGATION OF CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF AIRDROMES ON ICE 1946-1947. APPENDIX A. AVIATION USES OF ICE. (1947) (0)
Nutrition in the far North. (1947) (0)
Meat Diet: Blood as an Anti-Scorbutic Factor (1936) (0)
How I learned to hunt caribou. (0)
The heritage of community : a critique of community living based on great ways of life practiced by small communities over the world (1971) (0)
"Living Off the Country" as a Method of Arctic Exploration (1919) (0)
Man in Greenland: A Review@@@Greenland, Vol. 2: The Past and Present Population of Greenland; Vol. 3: The Colonization of Greenland and Its History until 1929 (1930) (0)
Letter from Mr. Stefansson (1918) (0)
Our neglected Arctic. (1947) (0)
First impressions of the Eskimos. (0)
Cahiers de géographie du Québec Minning Development on Ungava Bay (0)
Learning to live as an Eskimo--On a diet of fish without salt. (0)
Response : "The Friendly Arctic" (1923) (0)
The fruitful arctic. (0)
Learning to build a snowhouse and to be comfortable in one. (0)
The whaling fleet sails away. (0)
Captain Klinkenberg--Sea wolf and discoverer. (0)
Some Erroneous Ideas of Arctic Geography (1922) (0)
How we hunt polar bears. (0)
Hunters of the great north, by Vilhjalmur Stefansson ... (0)
An autumn journey through arctic mountains. (0)
Stefansson and Anderson in the Canadian Arctic (0)
Polar Temperatures and Coal Measures (1923) (0)
On a raft down the Porcupine River. (0)
We go in search of our own expedition. (0)
Commerce among the Arctic Coast Eskimo (0)
Investigation of construction and maintenance of airdomes on ice, 1946-1947 : aviation uses of ice (1947) (0)
A Word Common to the Natives of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Brazil (1956) (0)
Lost in the Mackenzie delta. (0)
Down the Mackenzie River through 2,000 miles of Indian country. (0)
Notes on Arctic Flying (1928) (0)
Some Problems of Arctic Travel: After a Forced Landing (1929) (0)
Blue Eyes for Brown (1933) (0)
POL volume 3 issue 18 Front matter (1939) (0)
On Eskimo work, 1908-12 (0)
The life at Tuktuyaktok. (0)
Suitability of Eskimo Methods of Winter Travel in Scientific Exploration (0)
Transpolar commerce by air. (0)
How an Eskimo sailed through the storm. (0)
The Exploitation of the Arctic@@@The Northward Course of Empire (1923) (0)
Eskimo Trade Routes, Arctic Coast, Canada (0)
A race over the arctic mountains in summer. (0)
More Riddles of the North@@@Ultima Thule: Further Mysteries of the Arctic (1941) (0)
The diet of eskimos. (1939) (0)
Notes on the Selection and Care of Polar Footwear (1940) (0)
THE ESKIMO WORD "IGLU". (1931) (0)
Arctic Ungulates (1946) (0)
BLUE EYES FOR BROWN. (1933) (0)
The Arctic (1925) (0)
The Far North of Canada@@@My Life with the Eskimo (1914) (0)
The sun goes away for the winter. (0)

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