Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen NorthThe author, a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist, describes his travels in the Arctic region. |
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Page 56
... natives prefer hunting seals to risking their lives hunting bear . In the fall about half the polar bears go to sleep for the win- ter . On the way up the valley to the icecap they passed along the shore directly across the harbor from ...
... natives prefer hunting seals to risking their lives hunting bear . In the fall about half the polar bears go to sleep for the win- ter . On the way up the valley to the icecap they passed along the shore directly across the harbor from ...
Page 330
... natives to return for the party and bring them out . Knud had given orders to Wulff and Koch and the two natives to remain at the spot where he had left them or , if they did go on , to follow a certain route . The two natives were ...
... natives to return for the party and bring them out . Knud had given orders to Wulff and Koch and the two natives to remain at the spot where he had left them or , if they did go on , to follow a certain route . The two natives were ...
Page 422
... natives ' downfall because it lasts at least two days , the minimum for a good meal if an Eskimo can eat as much as he wants . The mattak of a whale is the most delicious thing in the North . It is the enormously developed epidermis ...
... natives ' downfall because it lasts at least two days , the minimum for a good meal if an Eskimo can eat as much as he wants . The mattak of a whale is the most delicious thing in the North . It is the enormously developed epidermis ...
Contents
Map of Greenland front endpaper | 7 |
Feeding my dogs during the summer Our house at Dan | 13 |
Henrik and Tobias our Eskimo helpers | 23 |
Copyright | |
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