Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher:
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Observations of Eskimos during stay at Godthab, west Greenland, in winter of 1888-89 after crossing of Greenland ice sheet. Translation of Norwegian original Eskimoliv published in 1891.
Author: Waldo Bodfish
Publisher: Oral Biography Series
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Oral biography of Waldo Bodfish, Sr., an Iñupiag elder from Wainwright, a village on the Arctic coast of Alaska.
Author: Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher: London : Macmillan ; New York : Macmillan Company
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My Life with the Eskimo by Rudolph Martin Anderson, first published in 1913, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1465544895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Greenland is in a peculiar manner associated with Norway and with the Norwegians. Our forefathers were the first Europeans who found their way to its shores. In their open vessels the old Vikings made their daring voyages, through tempests and drift-ice, to this distant land of snows, settled there throughout several centuries, and added it to the domain of the Norwegian crown. After the memory of its existence had practically passed away, it was again one of our countrymen who, on behalf of a Norwegian company, founded the second European settlement of the country. It is poor, this land of the Eskimo, which we have taken from him; it has neither timber nor gold to offer us—it is naked, lonely, like no other land inhabited of man. But in all its naked poverty, how beautiful it is! If Norway is glorious, Greenland is in truth no less so. When one has once seen it, how dear to him is its recollection! I do not know if others feel as I do, but for me it is touched with all the dream-like beauty of the fairyland of my childish imagination. It seems as though I there found our own Norwegian scenery repeated in still nobler, purer forms. It is strong and wild, this Nature, like a saga of antiquity carven in ice and stone, yet with moods of lyric delicacy and refinement. It is like cold steel with the shimmering colours of a sunlit cloud playing through it. When I see glaciers and ice-mountains, my thoughts fly to Greenland where the glaciers are vaster than anywhere else, where the ice-mountains jut into a sea covered with icebergs and drift-ice. When I hear loud encomiums on the progress of our society, its great men and their great deeds, my thoughts revert to the boundless snow-fields stretching white and serene in an unbroken sweep from sea to sea, high over what have once been fruitful valleys and mountains. Some day, perhaps, a similar snow-field will cover us all.
Author: Ernest S. Burch
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1889963925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.
Author: Kenn Harper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-02-27
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 074341005X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Russ Kendall
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780590436953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes, in text and photographs, the home, family, school, and day-to-day life of a seven-year-old Eskimo boy living in a small village in Alaska.
Author: Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780813515892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This examination of the ideology and practice of the Yup'ik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of southwestern Alaska includes traditions, ideology, relations with Christianity, warfare, use of animals, law and order, and the non-native perception of the Yup'ik way of life.