Harpoon of the Hunter

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 0773501029 [0773501029] 1970. (Hardcover) 81pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Signed with an inscription by the author. Illustrations. The spine is lightly faded, there are two small closed tears at the top edge of the back panel, and there is a small abrasion on the front of the dust jacket. "The hero of this story, young Kamik, achieves manhood during the hunt for a wounded polar bear and his long journey home alone, after his companions have been killed. The first piece of Eskimo fiction to be published in English describes life in the Canadian Arctic before the coming of the white man. It is an astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment". Illustrations by Germaine Arnaktauyok. Locale: Arctic--Canada. (Fiction, Canadian, Eskimos, Fiction--Canada, Hunting, Inuit).