<p>In this classic of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening, de Poncins is a French nobleman who spent fifteen months in 1938 and 1939 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 his odyssey continues, he is transformed from an uncomprehending outsider to someone who finds himself living as Inuk: a man, preeminently.</p>

Kabloona

Politics & Social Sciences

De Poncins, Gontran

Social Sciences

Carroll & Graf Pub.

<p>This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938-39, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit. 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 odyssey continues, he is transformed from Kabloona, The White Man, an uncomprehending outsider, to someone who finds himself living, for a few short months, as Inuk: a man, preeminently.</p>

Kabloona: Among the Inuit (Graywolf Rediscovery Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Galantiere, Lewis

Community & Culture

Graywolf Press

A French traveller recounts his experiences living in Cholon, a city near Saigon with a predominantly Chinese population that in the 1950s was more typical of traditional Chinese culture than anyplace in China

From a Chinese City : In the Heart of Peacetime Vietnam

History

Poncins, Gontran De

Asia

Trackless Sands Pr Inc

From a Chinese City/in the Heart of Peacetime Vietnam

Americas

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