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Information about Polar Record and all other Cambridge journals can be accessed via http:// www.cambridge.org/. 000322474_51-4.indd0322474_51-4.indd 2 66/25/15/25/15 110:220:22 PPMM POLAR RECORD A Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Research POLAR RECORD Journal of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge VOLUME 51 NUMBER 259 JULY 2015 CONTENTS ARTICLES ‘For the sake of science and country’: the Ross Sea party 1914–1917. David L. Harrowfield p 343 Alfred de Quervain’s Swiss Greenland expeditions, 1909 and 1912. William Barr p 366 Scott and Shackleton in the media: a response to Ben Macintyre. Karen May and George Lewis p 386 The United States and China in the Arctic. Ingrid Lundestad and Øystein Tunsjø p 392 Greenland as a self-governing sub-national territory in international relations: past, current and future perspectives. Maria Ackrén p 404 What is a reindeer? Indigenous perspectives from northeast Siberia. Piers Vitebsky and Anatoly Alekseyev p 413 Tracking the development of co-management: using network analysis in a case from the Canadian Arctic. John-Erik Kocho-Schellenberg and Fikret Berkes p 422 Frederick A. Cook: the role of photography in the making of his polar explorer-hero image. Pat Millar p 432 Ross Island recreational walking tracks: relationships between soil physiochemical properties and track usage. Tanya A. O’Neill, Megan R. Balks and Jerónimo López-Martínez p 444 BOOK REVIEWS Media and the politics of arctic climate change. When the ice breaks. Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson, Nina Wormbs. Reviewed by Malgorzata Smieszek. p 456 Cultural encounters at Cape Farewell: the east Greenlandic immigrants and the German Moravian mission in the 19th century. Einar Lund Jensen, Kristine Raahauge and Hans Christian Gulløv. Reviewed by Ian R. Stone. p 457 Lashipa. History of large scale resource exploitation in polar areas. Louwrens Hacquebord. Reviewed by Nikolas Sellheim, p 458 2015 51 NUMBER 259 JULY VOLUME Siberia: a history of the people. Janet M. Hartley. Reviewed by Ian R. Stone. p 460 The arctic climate system. Mark Serreze and Roger Barry. Reviewed by Eleanor Darlington p 460 International relations and the arctic: understanding policy and governance. Robert W. Murray and Anita Dey Nuttall. Reviewed by Sebastian Knecht. p 462 Antarctica and the arctic circle: a geographic encyclopedia of the earth’s polar regions. Andrew J. Hund. Reviewed by Beau Riffenburgh p 463 The arctic in the anthropocene. Emerging research questions. Henry P. Huntington and Stephanie Pfirman. Reviewed by Nikolas Sellheim. p 464 Hoosh: roast penguin, scurvy day, and other stories of antarctic cuisine. Jason C. Anthony. Reviewed by Philip Sidney. p 465 COVER PHOTO A. K. (Keith) Jack with Sir Ernest Shackleton on Aurora in Wellington c.9 February 1917. Canterbury Museum, Middleton collec- tion. See the article by D. Harrowfield in the present issue. POLAR RECORD A Journal of Arctic and Antarctic Research VOLUME 51 NUMBER 259 JULY 2015 000322474_51-4.indd0322474_51-4.indd 1 66/25/15/25/15 110:220:22 PPMM.