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Chronicle of a starving Eskimo family's journey to and subsequent ten-year stay on an island rich in food where they are the only human inhabitants. Illustrated by original Eskimo sketches.
Author : Comock
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781567922653
Chronicle of a starving Eskimo family's journey to and subsequent ten-year stay on an island rich in food where they are the only human inhabitants. Illustrated by original Eskimo sketches.
Author : Robert J. Christopher
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773528765
This biographical study of the filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife Frances reveals, through unpublished diaries, their lives and careers prior to the release of his film 'Nanook of the North' in 1922.
Author : Robert Finch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393027990
W. W. Norton is pleased to announce that The Norton Book of Nature Writing is now available in a paperback college edition.
Author : Anders Breidlid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1134235933
This second edition of American Culture includes contemporary events and provides an introduction to American civilization. Extracts are taken from diverse sources such as political addresses, articles, interviews, oral histories and advertisements. Edited by academics who are highly experienced in the study and teaching of American Studies across a wide range of institutions, this book provides: texts that introduce aspects of American society in a historical perspective primary sources and images that can be used as the basis for illustration, analysis and discussion linking text which stresses themes rather than offering a simple chronological survey. American Culture brings together primary texts from 1600 to the present day to present a comprehensive overview of, and introduction to, American culture.
Author : Barry Lopez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1668080028
Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.
Author : Robert Joseph Flaherty
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Eskimos
ISBN :
Author's expeditions to Belcher Islands and Ungava, northern Canada, 1910-13.
Author : Robin McGrath
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772822574
A study of the development of contemporary Inuit literature, in both Inuktitut and English, including a discussion of its themes, structures and roots in oral tradition. The author concludes that a strong continuity persists between the two narrative forms despite apparent differences in subject matter and language.
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Canada, Northern
ISBN :
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Canada
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Author : Peter Stark
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
A wide-ranging, marvelous compilation of explorations at the top of the world.