Download or read book Book of Eskimos written by Peter Freuchen and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Peter Freuchen s Book of the Seven Seas written by Peter Freuchen and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the great mysteries of the sea with one of the most famous explorers of our time.
Download or read book White Eskimo written by Stephen R. Bown and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Adventures in the Arctic written by Peter Freuchen and published by New York : J. Messner. This book was released on 1960 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography edited posthumously by author's wife.
Download or read book Ice Floes and Flaming Water written by Peter Freuchen and published by New York : J. Messner. This book was released on 1954 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's narrative of rescue of whalers stranded on sea ice in 1911. Their strange story.
Download or read book Dagmar Freuchen s Cookbook of the Seven Seas written by Dagmar Freuchen and published by M Evans & Company. This book was released on 1968 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Give Me My Father s Body written by Kenn Harper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Across Arctic America written by Knud Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Fifth Thule expedition.
Download or read book Peter Freuchen s Book of the Eskimos written by Peter Freuchen and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1961 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the man who knew the Eskimos better than any other man of our generation, Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos presents an extraordinary close-up of a civilization still shrouded in secrecy--one of the strangest societies in the entire world.
Download or read book The Ice at the End of the World written by Jon Gertner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century—first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds—and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling—one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns. Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.
Download or read book Book of the Seven Seas written by Peter Freuchen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music of the First Nations written by Tara Browner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and non-Native scholars who provide erudite and illuminating perspectives on aboriginal culture, incorporating both traditional practices and contemporary musical influences. Gathering scholarship on a realm of intense interest but little previous publication, this collection promises to revitalize the study of Native music in North America, an area of ethnomusicology that stands to benefit greatly from these scholars' cooperative, community-oriented methods. Contributors are T. Christopher Aplin, Tara Browner, Paula Conlon, David E. Draper, Elaine Keillor, Lucy Lafferty, Franziska von Rosen, David Samuels, Laurel Sercombe, and Judith Vander.
Download or read book Kuujjuaq written by Dorothy Mesher and published by Duncan, B.C. : Unica Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enlightenment Town written by Jeffery Paine and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has a tiny old mining town straight out of Gunsmoke or Deadwood — Crestone, Colorado — become home to twenty-five spiritual centers representing nearly all the brand-name faiths of the world? With the keen eye of a storyteller, the insights of a scholar, and the heart of a seeker, Jeffery Paine narrates a truly unique adventure. He explores Crestone’s wintry, oxygen-thin mountain geography and introduces a cast of spiritual mavericks and unlikely visionaries. Paine finds in Crestone a remarkable dedication to coexistence. Paradoxically, the town’s amazing spiritual diversity highlights fundamental commonalities in a way that will strike and even inspire believers, agnostics, and searchers of every stripe.
Download or read book Peter Freuchen s Book of Eskimos written by Peter Freuchen and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1989-04-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yuuyaraq written by Harold Napoleon and published by Alaska Native Knowledge Network. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document traces the influence of various epidemics (such as smallpox in 1835-1840, and influenza and measles, known as the 'Great Death', in 1900) on the Yup'ik Eskimo peoples of northwest Alaska, and suggests that they resulted in Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS) which may underlie current social problems, such as alcoholism and dysfunctional behaviours.
Download or read book Book of the Eskimos written by Peter Freuchen and published by Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications. This book was released on 1961 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's experiences with Eskimo; their psychology and way of life. Includes several Eskimo legends.
