This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others' wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. But as de Poncins's odyssey continues,...

This work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1888 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Central Eskimo' was his first monograph and details his time spent on Baffin Island studying the Inuit people.

When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.

Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that "except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time." During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen,...

"Ethnologist Rasmussen journeyed widely across Greenland...in support of his theory that the Eskimo (Inuit) were descended from migratory Asian tribes." -The Mammoth Book of Polar Journeys (2011) "The far northern world of paganism and magical incantation, as Rasmussen came to see, could be so cruel as to lead to unspeakable acts." - The Ice at the End of the World (2020) "Few people who read Rasmussen's...People of the Polar North will fail to...

Photographs and text present the experiences and way of life of Tlingit, Athabascan, Yupik, and other Native American children in the villages, cities, and bush areas of Alaska.

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At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about the Inupiat and the bowhead whale.

After an accident prevents Bright Dawn's father from competing in the Iditarod, Alaska's annual long-distance dog sled race, his sponsors agree to let Bright Dawn take his place.