Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a memorable depiction of a life in science.

地理学家杰克-艾夫斯于1954年移居加拿大，不久之后，他在拉布拉多-温加瓦中部的麦吉尔亚北极研究实验室的建立中发挥了重要作用。这本关于他五十多年来在北极地区生活和工作的精彩记录，同时也是一本轻松愉快的胜利回忆录，也是对环境意识和保护问题的呼吁，这些问题与北方的生活密不可分地联系在一起。他将战后科学热潮中关键人物的个人印象与实地研究的知识戏剧性结合起来，《土地之外》是一部令人难忘的科学生活描写。