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Awards: Stephen Bown wins 2016 William Mills Prize

indexStephen R. Bown, the Ottawa-born‚ B.C.-based author, has received this year’s William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books – a biennial international honour administered by the Polar Libraries Colloquy – for his 2015 biography, White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic (Douglas & McIntyre).

The title is the first full-length biography of Knud Rasmussen‚ an early-20th-century arctic explorer and adventurer from Greenland who went on to complete a three-year dogsled mission to Alaska.

The win was announced at a ceremony during a Colloquy conference in Fairbanks‚ Alaska, on July 13.

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July 18th, 2016

4:54 pm

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