The Land Of Feast Or Famine (Ingstad)
:The Land of Feast or Famine was the title of several books about Canada's north: * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Hornby), the name of a 36-page manuscript John Hornby left when he starved to death in 1927 * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Ingstad), Helge Ingstad published a book by this title in 1931 * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Robinson), Norman Lubbock Robinson Norman Lubbock Robinson (1890-1951) was a photographer, born in Ireland, known for taking historic photographs of Canada's north. The Northwest Territories Archives contains 709 historic photographs he took. Biography Robinson served in the ...

The Land Of Feast Or Famine (Hornby)
John Hornby (1880–1927) was an English explorer, best known for his expeditions in the Arctic region of northern Canada, notably in the "Barren Lands" in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Biography Hornby was born to a wealthy family in England; his father, A. N. Hornby, twice captained England in Test cricket. John migrated to Canada in 1904. Hornby's first trip to the Arctic was to the Great Bear Lake region in 1908 and he developed a strong fascination with the Canadian Arctic wilderness. Apart from occasional trips to Edmonton and service in World War I, Hornby spent the rest of his life in Canada's wilderness. Hornby enlisted in the 19th Alberta Dragoons to fight during World War I, where he met Norman Lubbock Robinson, who would later work with him in Canada's north. Robinson's journals describe their work together, and Robinson took photos of Hornby on some of their wilderness excursions. Hornby transferred to the British Army, where he was commission ...
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The Land Of Feast Or Famine (Ingstad)
:The Land of Feast or Famine was the title of several books about Canada's north: * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Hornby), the name of a 36-page manuscript John Hornby left when he starved to death in 1927 * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Ingstad), Helge Ingstad published a book by this title in 1931 * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Robinson), Norman Lubbock Robinson Norman Lubbock Robinson (1890-1951) was a photographer, born in Ireland, known for taking historic photographs of Canada's north. The Northwest Territories Archives contains 709 historic photographs he took. Biography Robinson served in the ...

Helge Ingstad
Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America. Helge Ingstad died at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo at the age of 101. Early life Helge Ingstad was the son of Olav Ingstad (1867–1958) and Olga Marie Qvam (1869–1946) in Meråker, Nord-Trøndelag. His father was municipal engineer in Tromsø and held the title of factory supervisor. He ...
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The Land Of Feast Or Famine (Robinson)
:The Land of Feast or Famine was the title of several books about Canada's north: * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Hornby), the name of a 36-page manuscript John Hornby left when he starved to death in 1927 * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Ingstad), Helge Ingstad published a book by this title in 1931 * ''The Land of Feast or Famine'' (Robinson), Norman Lubbock Robinson Norman Lubbock Robinson (1890-1951) was a photographer, born in Ireland, known for taking historic photographs of Canada's north. The Northwest Territories Archives contains 709 historic photographs he took. Biography Robinson served in the ...