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Author : Wendell H. Oswalt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803286139
Corrects misconceptions about Eskimo life, analyzes early accounts by European explorers, and evaluates the impact these explorers had on Eskimo culture
Author : Kenn Harper
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586422424
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 Harbor with peculiar "cargo": Six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. Although Harper's unflinching narrative provides a much needed corrective to history's understanding of Peary, who was known among the Polar Inuit as "the great tormenter", it is primarily a story about a boy, Minik Wallace, known to the American public as "The New York Eskimo." Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrendered the hope of going "home," never stopped fighting for the dignity of his father's memory, and never gave up his belief that people would come to his aid if only he could get them to understand.
Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771621045
Though less known today than contemporaries like Amundsen and Peary, Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933) was one of the most intriguing of the great early 20th century arctic explorers. Born and raised in Greenland, and part Inuit on his mother’s side, Rasmussen could shoot a gun and harness a team of sled dogs by the time he was eight. Nevertheless he was well versed in the civilized arts and came to exploration after failing to make a career as an opera singer in Europe. He was obviously more at home on the ice floes than the stage, and undertook some of the most astounding feats of endurance in the annals of polar exploration including his record-setting 18,000-mile “Great Sled Journey”—the first to traverse the Northwest Passage by dogsled. More impressively, he travelled without the elaborate preparations and large support staffs employed by other explorers, surviving with only a few Inuit assistants and living off the land. He once explained his approach by saying, “[As a child] my playmates were native Greenlanders; from the earliest boyhood I played and worked with the hunters, so even the hardships of the most strenuous sledge-trips became pleasant routine for me.” Despite his extraordinary physical prowess, Rasmussen was one of the most intellectual of the great explorers, more interested in scientific study than glamorous feats, producing (among many other works) a ten-volume account documenting Inuit spirituality and culture, an accomplishment that earned him the title “the father of Eskimology.” In this first full-length biography, Stephen R. Bown brings Rasmussen’s inspiring story to English readers in all its richness, giving White Eskimo the readability of a good novel.
Author : Kenn Harper
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586422417
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 Harbor with peculiar "cargo": Six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. Although Harper's unflinching narrative provides a much needed corrective to history's understanding of Peary, who was known among the Polar Inuit as "the great tormenter", it is primarily a story about a boy, Minik Wallace, known to the American public as "The New York Eskimo." Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrendered the hope of going "home," never stopped fighting for the dignity of his father's memory, and never gave up his belief that people would come to his aid if only he could get them to understand.
Author : Dorothy Eber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802092755
In Encounters on the Passage, present day Inuit tell the stories that have been passed down from their ancestors of the first encounters with European explorers.
Author : ALEX. HIBBERT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912821729
Author : S. Allen Counter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510726383
North Pole Legacy tells the story of two men whose existence was for decades nothing more than a popular legend. But that rumor was finally verified in 1986 when author S. Allen Counter journeyed to northern Greenland, and met this pair of remarkable men. Counter had long been an admirer of Matthew A. Henson, the African-American explorer who accompanied Admiral Robert E. Peary to the North Pole twice in early twentieth century. While conducting professional research in Sweden, Counter became intrigued by talk of mixed-race Inuit living in an isolated region of Greenland. Unable to forget this rumor, Counter traveled to investigate several years later, venturing more than a thousand miles north of the Arctic Circle. There, in two tiny villages, Counter met Anaukaq Henson and Kali Peary, Amer-Inuit sons of the two explorers. Born only days apart in 1906, they had long been acknowledged by their communities as the sons of Matthew Henson and Robert Peary, but had never been in contact with any of their American relatives. As it was obvious that these two men longed to see the country of their fathers, Counter arranged for Anakukaq, Kali, and their families to travel to America to meet their families. North Pole Legacy describes the obstacles that Counter overcame to bring news of Anaukaq Henson and Kali Peary to the world, to bring them to the United States, and to facilitate a reunion with relatives that they had never known. At the same time, the narrative flashes back to the unique history of Matthew Henson and Robert Peary in their collaboration as explorers and addresses their somewhat controversial claim to have been the first people to reach the North Pole. Compelling, insightful, and impossible to forget, North Pole Legacy is a must read for every history buff and armchair explorer.
Author : Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Eskimos
ISBN : 1982913673
"Vilhjamur Stefansson was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist. Under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, he and Dr. R. M. Anderson undertook the ethnological survey of the central arctic coasts of the shores of North America from 1908 t0 1912." -- back cover
Author : V. Stefansson
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871433348
Author : Kenn Harper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743410052
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 : Kenn Harper
Publisher : In Those Days: Collected Writi
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1772274224
Historian Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit who played a pivotal role in the expeditions of some of the most famous Arctic explorers, including the unfortunate John Franklin.
Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Science
ISBN : 0449300382
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.
Author : Ernest S. Burch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803213468
Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S. Burch Jr. illuminates one aspect of the traditional lives of the I_upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth. Basing his account on observations made by early Western explorers, interviews with Native historians, and archeological research, Burch describes the social boundaries and geographic borders formerly existing in Northwest Alaska and the various kinds of transactions that took place across them. These ranged from violence of the most brutal sort, at one extreme, to relations of peace and friendship, at the other. Burch argues that the international system he describes approximated in many respects the type of system existing all over the world before the development of agriculture. Based on that assumption, he presents a series of hypotheses about what the world system may have been like when it consisted entirely of hunter-gatherer societies and about how it became more centralized with the evolution of chiefdoms. ø Accounts of specific people, places, and events add an immediate, experiential dimension to the work, complementing its theoretical apparatus and sweeping narrative scope. Provocative and comprehensive, Alliance and Conflict is a definitive look at the greater world of Native peoples of Northwest Alaska.
Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108071437
The 1927 autobiography, in English translation, of the first man to traverse the North-West Passage and to reach the South Pole.
Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781461749967
Incorporated in 1905, The Explorers Club in its earliest years met in simple rented rooms. In 1965, the Club bought a Tudor-style mansion on East 70th Street in the historic Upper East Side, where it has remained ever since. Celebrating its centennial anniversary in 2004, today The Explorers Club is an international society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. This volume is dedicated to the spirit of exploration. Assembled by Club member and literary giant George Plimpton, As Told by the Explorer's Club will take you from Amundsen to Lindbergh, from the Arctic to Antarctica, and all points in between.