Eskimos and Explorers

Eskimos and Explorers

Author: Wendell H. Oswalt

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780803286139

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Corrects misconceptions about Eskimo life, analyzes early accounts by European explorers, and evaluates the impact these explorers had on Eskimo culture


Minik: The New York Eskimo

Minik: The New York Eskimo

Author: Kenn Harper

Publisher: Steerforth

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1586422421

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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.


White Eskimo

White Eskimo

Author: Stephen R. Bown

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0306822830

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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."


Book of Eskimos

Book of Eskimos

Author: Peter Freuchen

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 2023-02-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781648372704

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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.


Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen

Author: Roald Amundsen

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Autobiography.


Give Me My Father's Body

Give Me My Father's Body

Author: Kenn Harper

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-02-27

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 074341005X

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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.


Freeze Frame

Freeze Frame

Author: Ann Fienup-Riordan

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780295983370

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Freeze Frame includes a complete filmography of feature, documentary, and ethnographic films, and is generously illustrated with still photographs and lobby cards from Hollywood films featuring Eskimos, as well as more recent photographs showing filming in Alaska.