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Shelley Wright’s Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq is one of five books shortlisted for the 2015 John W. Dafoe Book Prize.
This prestigious prize is given annually by the J. W. Dafoe Foundation of Winnipeg to a non-fiction work that contributes to the understanding of Canada and its place in the world. The award commemorates long-time editor John Wesley Dafoe, one of the most significant Canadian editors of the 20th century.
The 2015 Shortlist:
Tim Cook, The Necessary War Vol 1: Canadians Fighting the Second World War 1939-1943 (Penguin Canada)
Terry Gould, Worth Dying For: Canada’s Mission to Train Police in the World’s Failing States (Random House Canada)
David Halton, Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada’s Voice at War (McClelland & Stewart)
Chantal Hebert, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Shelley Wright, Our Ice Is Vanishing/Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Congratulations to Shelley and the other finalists!
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
By Shelley Wright
A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.
Combining scientific and legal information with political and individual perspectives, Shelley Wright follows the history of the Canadian presence in the Arctic and shares her own journey in recollections and photographs, presenting the far North as few people have seen it.
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Congratulations, Shelley, on a major accomplishment.