Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos / edited and with a pref. by Dagmar Freuchen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cleveland : World Pub. Co., 1961.Edition: 1st edDescription: 441 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 919.8
LOC classification:
  • E99.E7 F7
Contents:
pt. 1 Eskimo life and ways: Eskimo environment and origins -- The Eskimo way of life -- Trading with the Eskimos -- Love and marriage -- Eating and visiting -- Polar Justice: Crime and punishment among the Eskimos -- Eskimos as servants -- The Eskimo mind -- pt. 2 Adventures with the Eskimos: Lootevek: Cassanova of the ice floes -- Arctic nightmare -- An Eskimo takes a bride -- Dead man's cache -- The partner -- The day I harpponed myself -- Marriage, the harbor of safety -- Hunger -- The polar bear -- pt. 3 The Eskimos: Past and present.
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pt. 1 Eskimo life and ways: Eskimo environment and origins -- The Eskimo way of life -- Trading with the Eskimos -- Love and marriage -- Eating and visiting -- Polar Justice: Crime and punishment among the Eskimos -- Eskimos as servants -- The Eskimo mind -- pt. 2 Adventures with the Eskimos: Lootevek: Cassanova of the ice floes -- Arctic nightmare -- An Eskimo takes a bride -- Dead man's cache -- The partner -- The day I harpponed myself -- Marriage, the harbor of safety -- Hunger -- The polar bear -- pt. 3 The Eskimos: Past and present.