The Snow People: Life Among the Polar Eskimos

The Snow People: Life Among the Polar Eskimos image
ISBN-10:

0330244124

ISBN-13:

9780330244121

Author(s): Herbert, Marie
Edition: New Ed
Released: Jan 01, 1976
Publisher: Pan/Macmillan
Format: Paperback, 255 pages
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Description:

When she knew she was going to marry an explorer, Marie Herbert saw herself waiting long months at home for news from distant, uncharted areas ... Within two years she was living with her husband in a remote settlement of Polar Inuit. Wally Herbert had developed a profound respect for these independent hunters, who call themselves the Inughuit – the real people – during his many polar expeditions, and he wanted to help them make a record of their dying culture. Marie and Wally – along with their 10-month-old baby, Kari – decided to make this record from within: to go alone, and learn from the Inuit how to survive in this harsh, yet beautiful environment. Spirited, enthusiastic and sympathetic, Marie Herbert tells the fascinating story of two years of Arctic adventure: in doing so she has written an important anthropological account of a vanishing way of life.












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