Polar Books Catalogue

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    Reference 4357 (2458)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Pryde, Duncan
    Title NUNAGA: Ten Years of Eskimo Life.
    Publishing Information London: Book Club Associates by arrangement with MacGibbon & Kee Ltd., 1985
    Description 1972 BCA Edition: 285 pages plus 8 pages of COLOUR photographs, map end papers. Shelf wear, spotting to page edges, contents clean. "Single, ambitious, self-reliant young man required....Duncan Pryde an 18 year old orphan, ex merchant seaman and disgruntled factory-worker, decided to try his hand at fur trading and emigrated to Canada. In Nunaga, he tells of his discovery of a remote and primitive life to which, astonishingly, he found that he easily adapted....Pryde speaks with authority of the northern native life - the Eskimos' birth, death and marriage rights, their extraordinarily tolerant sexual customs, their age-old and amazingly effective hunting skills".
    Price £10.00
    Keywords qpolarq, arctic, polar S1-Arc
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