Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 9780773572775

The early careers of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances, deepen our understanding of

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Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922
9780773572775

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Robert J. Christopher

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations and Maps
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1 The Boy from Iron Mountain
"The Islands That Were Not There," 1884–1904
2 The Violin, Camera, and Canoe
Diary of Exploration of Lake Nipigon Region, Northern Ontario, 7 September – 5 October 1906
3 From Bryn Mawr to Lake Nipigon
Diary of the First Mackenzie Expedition, 5 August 1910 – 14 March 1911
4 Through Canada's Northland
Diary of the Second Mackenzie Expedition, 6 June 1911 – 8 August 1912
5 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Diary of the Third Mackenzie Expedition, 15 June 1913 – 3 October 1914
6 Frances and the Book of the Heart
Diary of Frances Hubbard Flaherty, 17 December 1914 – 22 February 1916
7 Flaherty Island
Diary of the Fourth Mackenzie Expedition, 11 August 1915 – 21 September 1916
8 Nanook of the Barren Lands
The Port Harrison Diary, August 1920 – August 1921
9 Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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D
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F
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