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Title White Eskimo : Knud Rasmussen's fearless journey into the heart of the Arctic / Stephen R. Bown.
Author Bown, Stephen R.
Publication Info. Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
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 Alafaya  B RASMUSSEN    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B RASMUSSEN    Check Shelves
Edition First Da Capo Press edition.
Description xxv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323) and index.
Contents Prologue: "I must go and see the New People" -- Part One. New Sun -- On Greenland's Stony Shores -- The Temptations of Copenhagen -- The Danish Literary Expedition -- Part Two. Midnight Sun -- The New People -- The Kingdom of the North Wind -- The First Thule Expedition -- Before the Eye of Day -- Ground Dearly Paid For -- A Time for Dreaming -- Part Three. Return of the Moon -- The Land Beyond the Great Sea -- The Great Sled Journey -- Part Four. Northern Lights -- Records of a Vanishing World -- Final Journeys -- Epilogue: Timeless Stories.
Subject Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933.
Explorers -- Denmark -- Biography.
Anthropologists -- Denmark -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Denmark -- Biography.
Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Danish.
Greenland -- Discovery and exploration -- Danish.
Inuit -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 9780306822827 : $27.99
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