Author

Publication

1955 - Gilbert Press; distributed by Messner, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCPZ4.W952 Kn

Description

Fictional account of the introduction of the white man's implement into a polar Eskimo community in the Thule region of Greenland. Based on a narrative of Meksak, grandfather of Peter Freuchen's Eskimo wife, and on the legend of Saviksu, the meteoritic iron stones at Cape York brought away by Peary in 1897.

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