Hunters of the Great North

Description

Between 1906 and 1918, Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic. While there he adopted the Eskimo way of living, thus successfully demonstrating that the rigors of Arctic existence was much reduced by the use of such techniques. He wrote voluminously about his travels and observations.In 'Hunters of the Great North' Stefansson recounts some of his early experiences in the Arctic. He tells of his travels with the Eskimo and how they taught him to hunt, to accept their diet and mode of life, to build snow-houses and generally to live in comfort in a region which people will persist in regarding as inhospitable in the extreme. It is a volume of the lore of the Arctic, full of vivid descriptions and personal incidents. The chapters on hunting contain a great deal of natural history of the caribou, polar bear, and seal, and there is of course much of interest regarding the Eskimo. Mr. Stefansson has given us no book of polar travel of greater interst than this volume. It should help to dispel some of the fallacies regarding the Arctic climate and conditions of the far north. The call of the north is in its pages, which will awaken memories among those who know the ice, and stir otheres with a longing to go and see.