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  • In Those Days: Inuit Lives

    de Kenn Harper ...
    Series Libro 1 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will cover a particularly fascinating aspect of traditional Inuit life. In volume one, Inuit Biographies, Harper shares the unique challenges and life histories of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Minik: The New York Eskimo

    An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People

    de Kenn Harper ...
    The gripping true story of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity and belonging in turn-of-the-century New York City during the age of Arctic exploration“Impeccably researched and gracefully written, this is an essential book."–Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship FeverSailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Minik

    Der Eskimo von New York

    de Kenn Harper ...
    Als der amerikanische Polarforscher Robert Peary im August 1897 von einer Expedition nach Nordgrönland zurückkehrt, hat er eine ungewöhnliche Ladung an Bord: Er bringt sechs Eskimos mit in die Vereinigten Staaten, angefordert vom New Yorker American Museum of Natural History als Forschungs- und Präsentationsobjekte. Hier, im Kellergeschoß des Museums, sind die Polareskimos der wissenschaftlichen ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Breathing Hole

    de Colleen Murphy ...
    Traducido por Janet Tamalik McGrath ...
    Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on ice near a breathing hole. Despite the concerns of her community, she adopts him and names him Angu’ruaq. In 1845, Angu’ruaq and his mate Ukuannuaq wander into a ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs

    Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition

    de Kenn Harper ...
    In Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs, Arctic historian Kenn Harper takes readers alongside Knud Rasmussen’s spearheading Fifth Thule Expedition. From 1921 to 1924, Rasmussen trekked across Canada’s Arctic to study Inuit there and record their stories, and perhaps most importantly to him, to immerse himself in their culture and to know them. With the support of his colleagues and Inuit guides, Rasmussen ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Thou Shalt Do No Murder

    Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic

    de Kenn Harper ...
    High Arctic, 1920: Three Inuit men delivered justice to an abusive Newfoundland trader This is a story of fur trade rivalry and duplicity, isolation and abandonment, greed and madness, and a struggle for the affections of an Inuit woman during a time of major social change in the High Arctic. Doubts over the validity of Canadian sovereignty and an official agenda to confirm that sovereignty added ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers

    de Kenn Harper ...
    Series Libro 5 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    In the fifth volume of the In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History series, Kenn Harper shares tales of European explorers who came to the Arctic seeking adventure, riches, and the elusive Northwest Passage, and Inuit they encountered there. Inuit were invaluable in adding to Western knowledge of the Arctic, serving as guides, clothing-makers, and interpreters. But not every meeting was ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment

    de Kenn Harper ...
    Series Libro 2 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North

    de Kenn Harper ...
    Series Libro 4 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist—and sometimes clash—in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to proselytize among the Inuit, with often unexpected and sometimes tragic results. This collection includes stories of shamans and priests, hymns and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling

    de Kenn Harper ...
    Series Libro 3 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved the treacherous Arctic waters, risking starvation, scurvy, and death, to bring home the bounty of the North. The presence of these whalemen ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Giv mig min far - Beretningen om New York-eskimoen Minik

    de Kenn Harper ...
    Narrado por Paul Becker ...

    Completo

    8 hora 23 minutos

    Fra polarforskningens guldalder får vi nu den forbavsende og hidtil aldrig fortalte beretning som en ung eskimodreng fra det nordvestlige Grønland - Minik - som i 1897 sammen med sin far og fire andre blev taget med til Amerika af polarforskeren Robert Peary. Eskimoerne blev overdraget American Museum of Natural History som "studieobjekter". Fire af gruppens medlemmer, deriblandt Miniks far, døde ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Ice Ghosts

    The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

    de Paul Watson ...
    "Intriguing [and] enjoyable." —Ian McGuire, New York Times Book ReviewIce Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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