For instance, Grace (2002) defines the impact of Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s book, The Friendly Arctic (1921), as an example of the glorification of nature as the “sublime” to encourage the settlement of the Arctic in North America. One important quote from Grace’s (year?0 analysis confirms Cronon’s (year?) argument about the historical distortions of the wilderness that make the wilderness a hostile place or a natural sanctuary in Stefansson’s dualistic view of Nature:
Stefansson’s message is that the North is, after all a friendly place, rich in resources and high in potential for development…All we must do to realize this potential is to set aside the negative twaddle proliferating in the South about the North and learn from the Inuit. “It is the mental attitude of the southerner,” Stefansson insists, “that makes the North hostile” (Grace, 2002,