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Author Name: Harper, Kenn;Spacey, Kevin
Title: Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Steerforth Pr 2000
ISBN Number: 1883642531 / 9781883642532
Seller ID: 012656
Book in excellent, clean, unmarked and tight binding condition. "This story seems to tell itself, but Kenn Harper, who has lived among the Inuit ('Eskimo" is old-fashioned and less politically correct) for 30 years (now in their capital, Nunavit) deftly guides us through the story from an Inuit perspective." In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary brought Minik Wallace, a young Polar Eskimo, from northwestern Greenland to New York. During his 12 years in America, Minik's adoptive family went from riches to rags, and Minik's own life was shattered by the traumatic discovery of his More...father's skeleton on display in the American Museum of Natural History. Sent back to Greenland in 1909, Minik had to relearn his native language and hunting skills to survive. Told here for the first time, this dark chapter from the golden age of Polar expedition is based on original research in Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. 012656
Eskimo, Greenland, Polar Expeditions, Inuit
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