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The Calling and The Spell

by Siegfried Bucher

317 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0021; ISBN 1-55212-619-6; US$25.00, C$29.95, EUR19.50, £14.50

The story of a scientific exploration to Baffin Island in 1962.

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About the Book The Calling and the Spell, a companion to Siegfried Bucher's Dangerous Encounters, details Bucher's adventures in the Arctic after giving up a career in Engineering. The Calling and the Spell details the lure and the seduction of the vast and beautiful Arctic.

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About the Author Siegfried Bucher, a Swiss-born Canadian, was educated in Switzerland where he received, in 1951, the degree of Engineer. His preference for geophysical science led him to Canada where he was active in exploration for oil and gas, primarily in the Arctic regions of Canada. He was instrumental in developing seismic data gathering on ice. He pioneered the small-equipment Arctic exploration crew and the heli-portable mountain seismic crew, concepts for minimizing damage to the environment by using space age technology together with the re-introduction of man as the key figure. An experienced mountaineer, he made several successful first ascents on previously unclimbed peaks in the Rocky Mountains and Baffin Island. Also by Siegfried Bucher: Dangerous Encounters The First Five Years North of the Arctic Circle A Pocketful of Stories

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From the back cover

When he arrived in the Arctic for the first time he felt disillusioned, for having heard and read about it, in his mind he had built something stupendous. And now he saw only a vast land covered with snow, not unlike the praries and the mountains farther south. That was all he saw for a time.

Then he discovered that the Arctic is not merely a snowbound land over which storms howl or a blue sky bends, but is a place teeming with life here and there when the sun circles above its southern horizon in summer; and holds a persistent lure that casts a spell upon the person who treads across its terrain.

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