Author: ALEX. HIBBERT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912821723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
POLAR ESKIMO.
Author: ALEX. HIBBERT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912821723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912821723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Minik: The New York Eskimo
Author: Kenn Harper
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A true story from the great age of Arctic exploration of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity against Robert Peary and the American Museum of Natural History in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with peculiar "cargo": Six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. Although Harper's unflinching narrative provides a much needed corrective to history's understanding of Peary, who was known among the Polar Inuit as "the great tormenter", it is primarily a story about a boy, Minik Wallace, known to the American public as "The New York Eskimo." Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrendered the hope of going "home," never stopped fighting for the dignity of his father's memory, and never gave up his belief that people would come to his aid if only he could get them to understand.
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A true story from the great age of Arctic exploration of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity against Robert Peary and the American Museum of Natural History in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with peculiar "cargo": Six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. Although Harper's unflinching narrative provides a much needed corrective to history's understanding of Peary, who was known among the Polar Inuit as "the great tormenter", it is primarily a story about a boy, Minik Wallace, known to the American public as "The New York Eskimo." Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrendered the hope of going "home," never stopped fighting for the dignity of his father's memory, and never gave up his belief that people would come to his aid if only he could get them to understand.
The Polar Eskimo
Author: Walter Elmer Ekblaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
North Pole Legacy
Author: S. Allen Counter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931229098
Category : Inuit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Upon hearing rumors that the men who discovered the North Pole had fathered sons while on their expedition, S. Allen Counter arranged to visit the remote villages where Robert Peary, the credited discoverer, and Matthew Henson, the black man whose contributions to the expedition are widely ignored, stayed during their travels. This book recounts the astonishing story of Counter’s trips to Greenland and the relationships he develops with the Eskimo ancestors of the two men. At the same time, new evidence about Peary’s journey to the Pole is examined, and it comes to light that Henson, was the true hero.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931229098
Category : Inuit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Upon hearing rumors that the men who discovered the North Pole had fathered sons while on their expedition, S. Allen Counter arranged to visit the remote villages where Robert Peary, the credited discoverer, and Matthew Henson, the black man whose contributions to the expedition are widely ignored, stayed during their travels. This book recounts the astonishing story of Counter’s trips to Greenland and the relationships he develops with the Eskimo ancestors of the two men. At the same time, new evidence about Peary’s journey to the Pole is examined, and it comes to light that Henson, was the true hero.
Book of Eskimos
Author: Peter Freuchen
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN: 9781648372704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peter Freuchen's classic memoir offers a first-person account of life among the far northern indigenous peoples. It is filled with exciting tales of Arctic adventure as well as fascinating descriptions of everyday life and culture.
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN: 9781648372704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peter Freuchen's classic memoir offers a first-person account of life among the far northern indigenous peoples. It is filled with exciting tales of Arctic adventure as well as fascinating descriptions of everyday life and culture.
White Eskimo
Author: Stephen R. Bown
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306822830
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made a courageous three-year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska to reveal the common origins of all circumpolar peoples. Lovers of Arctic adventure, exotic cultures, and timeless legend will relish this gripping tale by Stephen R. Bown, known as "Canada's Simon Winchester."
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306822830
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made a courageous three-year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska to reveal the common origins of all circumpolar peoples. Lovers of Arctic adventure, exotic cultures, and timeless legend will relish this gripping tale by Stephen R. Bown, known as "Canada's Simon Winchester."
The Material Response of the Polar Eskimo to Their Far Arctic Environment
Author: Walter Elmer Ekblaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Give Me My Father's Body
Author: Kenn Harper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074341005X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A searing, true tale of extraordinary darkness, Harper's critically acclaimed history is an absorbing and poignant portrait of the short, strange, and tragic life of the boy known as the New York Eskimo. Two 16-page photo inserts and one 8-page insert.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074341005X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A searing, true tale of extraordinary darkness, Harper's critically acclaimed history is an absorbing and poignant portrait of the short, strange, and tragic life of the boy known as the New York Eskimo. Two 16-page photo inserts and one 8-page insert.
Contributions to the Ethnology and Anthropogeography of the Polar Eskimos
Author: Hans Peder Steensby
Publisher: s.l. : s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher: s.l. : s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
My Life with the Eskimo
Author: Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description