My Life with the Eskimo (1913)

My Life with the Eskimo (1913)

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 â€“ 1962) was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist. "My Life with the Eskimo" is the enthralling story of Stefanssonâ€™s Arctic journey over one thousand miles of ice, and his discovery of the new race, the blonde Eskimo. Stefansson's splendid volume is a mine of interesting observation for different branches of science. It is a fascinating book of description and adventure that has been written by the famous traveler and explorer, who has passed years of his life within the Arctic Circle. Mr. Stefansson has had a vast amount of material from which to draw and he has made his selection wisely. He has lived with the Eskimo for long periods; he knows their language; he has subsisted on their food; he has heard their legends; he has seen them in their daily lives as have few explorers. Consequently his remarks about this primitive and matter-of-fact people are shrewd, true, and frequently amusing. The experiences and tales which he recounts, mirroring the hardships and the inspirations of life in a fearful but wonderful country, compose a work quite the most absorbing on it that has ever been published.

In 1908 the American Museum of Natural History organized an expedition to the Arctic under the leadership of Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Rudolph M. Anderson. The object of this enterprise was to make anthropological and zoological studies on the coast between the Mackenzie River and Hudson Bay and on the adjacent islands. The expedition was to be known as the Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. The plan of the leaders was to travel by land and water with a party of Eskimo and to depend entirely upon their own resources as to food and clothing. The Canadian Government also aided the expedition with funds and equipment for geographical and geological observations.

Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson returned to the Museum in September, 1912, after four years of continuous exploration. A full statement of the itinerary is given in Stefansson's My Life with the Eskimo.

Mr. Stefansson succeeded in visiting thirteen groups in that territory and determining approximately their respective habitats. He noted the peculiar suggestions of European blood among these Eskimo.

This book originally published in 1913 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
Country USA
Author Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 672
PublicationDate 2015-06-10
ReleaseDate 2015-06-10

Country	USA
Author	Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	672
PublicationDate	2015-06-10
ReleaseDate	2015-06-10

My Life with the Eskimo (1913)

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