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Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs
Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition
Av Kenn Harper
Inbunden, 2024
188 kr
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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 …
In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North
Av Kenn Harper
Häftad, 2019
172 kr
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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 …
Minik: The New York Eskimo
An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People
Av Kenn Harper
Häftad, 2017
178 kr
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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 …
In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment
Av Kenn Harper
Häftad, 2015
177 kr
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In this second volume of 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 …
In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers
Av Kenn Harper
Häftad, 2022
188 kr
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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 …
Minik
Der Eskimo von New York
Av Kenn Harper
E-bok, 2015
41 kr
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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 …
In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling
Av Kenn Harper
Häftad, 2018
177 kr
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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 …
In Those Days: Inuit Lives
Av Kenn Harper
Häftad, 2013
173 kr
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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 …
