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Hunters Of The Polar North

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Author : Wally Herbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982

Hunters Of The Polar North written by Wally Herbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Eskimos categories.

Hunters Of The Polar North

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Author : Wally Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
Release Date : 1981

Hunters Of The Polar North written by Wally Herbert and has been published by Silver Burdett Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.

Polar Eskimo in the Thule district, northwest Greenland.

Hunters Of The Polar North The Eskimos Peoples Of The Wild

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Author : Wally Herbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982

Hunters Of The Polar North The Eskimos Peoples Of The Wild written by Wally Herbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Eskimos categories.

Hunters Of The Great North

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Author : Vilhjalmur Stefansson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-17

Hunters Of The Great North written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-17 with categories.

"A first class writing man, a first class hunter and explorer, most entertaining." -New Outlook "He has challenged our preconceptions about the Arctic." -American Review "A man of action who is at the same time a man of letters...eminently successful." -M.S.T.A. Quarterly Review Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), of North Dakota, was an arctic explorer and ethnologist. Because of his studies of the Eskimos, his discoveries of land, the application of new ideas and new methods of exploration, Stefansson was considered the foremost polar explorer of his day, and one of the few great explorers of all time. During a period of three or four years Mr. Stefansson has produced a creditable list of books about the Arctic. In some respects his service in publishing the results of his Northern studies has differed from that of earlier explorers. He has challenged our preconceptions about the Arctic. "Hunters of the Great North" gives details of Northern life such as have doubtless come within the experience of all Arctic explorers, but which are new to the average American reader. In short, it is an elementary text-book of the Arctic. Stefansson lived among the Eskimos of the Mackenzie River, studying their language and adopting their mode of life, and spending ten winters and thirteen summers in the polar regions. Among Stefannson's most famous discovery was that of a race of blond Eskimo on Coronation Gulf. Stefansson writes: "In the present book I have tried by means of diaries and memory to go back to the vivid impressions of my first year among the Eskimos for the story of what I saw and heard." In describing his confrontation with a polar bear, Stefansson writes: "I heard behind me a noise like the spitting of a cat or the hiss of a goose. I looked back and saw, about twenty feet away and almost above me, a polar bear. I had overestimated the bear's distance from shore, and had passed the spot where he lay. From his eye and attitude, as well as the story his trail told afterward there was no doubting his intentions: the hiss was merely his way of saying, "Watch me do it!" Or at least that is how I interpreted it; possibly the motive was chivalry, and the hiss was his way of saying Garde!" Contents I. PREPARATIONS FOR A LIFEWORK OF EXPLORATION II. DOWN THE MACKENZIE RIVER THROUGH 2000 MILES OF INDIAN COUNTRY III. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE ESKIMOS IV. CAPTAIN KLINKENBERG-SEA WOLF AND DISCOVERER V. THE WHALING FLEET SAILS AWAY VI. LEARNING TO LIVE AS AN ESKIMO-ON A DIET OF FISH WITHOUT SALT VII. HOW AN ESKIMO SAILED THROUGH THE STORM VIII. AN AUTUMN JOURNEY THROUGH ARCTIC MOUNTAINS IX. THE SUN GOES AWAY FOR THE WINTER X. LOST IN THE MACKENZIE DELTA XI. AN ARCTIC CHRISTMAS WITH AN ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTLEMAN XII. THE LIFE AT TUKTUYAKTOK XIII. LEARNING TO BUILD A SNOWHOUSE AND TO BE COMFORTABLE IN ONE XIV. TRAVELS AFTER THE SUN CAME BACK XV. WE GO IN SEARCH OF OUR OWN EXPEDITION XVI. A SPRING JOURNEY IN AN ESKIMO SKIN BOAT XVII. A RACE OVER THE ARCTIC MOUNTAINS IN SUMMER XVIII. ON A RAFT DOWN THE PORCUPINE RIVERSHORT STORIES OF ADVENTURE I. HOW I LEARNED TO HUNT CARIBOU II. HOW I LEARNED TO HUNT SEALS III. HOW WE HUNT POLAR BEARS

Living Arctic

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Author : Hugh Brody
language : en
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
Release Date : 1987

Living Arctic written by Hugh Brody and has been published by Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Canada, Northern categories.

Text and photos portraying the diverse native peoples who live in the Canadian arctic. Includes chapters on stereotypes, peoples, cold, meat, animals, mobility, authority, children, language, tradition, frontiers, and the politics of survival.

Hunters Of The Great North Classic Reprint

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Author : Vilhjalmur Stefansson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-09-17

Hunters Of The Great North Classic Reprint written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with Fiction categories.

Excerpt from Hunters of the Great North When first you leave home to travel in a foreign land you receive impressions more vivid than those of any later journey to the same country. If you at once rush your views and observations into print you are likely to have an interesting book but not so likely an accurate one. You will probably regret some parts of that book on grounds of mere regard for truth, for you will see later that you erred both in observations and conclusions. When first I went to the polar regions I came back at the end of a year and a half full of enthusiasm for the Arctic and for the Eskimos. Luckily that enthusiasm was translated into the organization of a second expedi tion that left for the North in seven months, and not into a book to be published then. As I look over my diaries of that time I shudder to think how vastly I might have augmented the already great misknowledge of the Arctic had I published everything I imagined I had seen and everything I thought I knew. At the end of my second expedition, after five winters and seven summers in the North, I published My Life With the Eskimo (new York and London, So far I have discovered (with the help of critics and through careful re-reading) a half dozen errors in that volume. Some of these have been eliminated as the book has been reprinted; the rest will be rectified in the next printing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.