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Tales of the Eskimo: being impressions of a strenuous, indomitable, and cheerful little people. With photographs by the author.
de [ARCTIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLES -- CANADA]. MUNN, Captain Henry Toke
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London: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., 38 Soho Square, [1925]. 8vo. 196 pp. Photo frontisp., 17 photo plates. Blue cloth, blue lettering (minor shelfwear, rubbing, light wear to corners, w/o ffep.), w/ d.j. colour cover art photo, price of 3/6 on rear flap (minor chipping & tear head of spine, upper fore-edge, some dustsoiling, minor creasing), still G/G- copy. First edition of this semi-autobiographical memoir, and partly fictional account of the Eskimo families on Southampton Island, and others on Baffin Island. Munn (1864-1952), an inveterate adventurer, prospected for gold through the Yukon Gold Rush, into Newfoundland, established a trading post at Button Point north of Baffin Island, and clashed often with the Hudson’s Bay Company as it increased it’s posts into the Canadian Arctic. Scarce in original jacket. See: Kenn Harper, Looking Back: An Inconvenient Munn, the Well-Connected, Quarrelsome Englishman Who Fought With Just About Everyone in the Arctic, Up Here, Life in Canada’s Far North (June 1, 2014).
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- Tales of the Eskimo: being impressions of a strenuous, indomitable, and cheerful little people. With photographs by the author.
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- [ARCTIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLES -- CANADA]. MUNN, Captain Henry Toke
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- W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., 38 Soho Square,
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- Fecha de publicación
- [1925].
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- Palabras clave
- Eskimo, First Nations, Indigenous Peoples, Arctic, Canada, Canadian, Americana, Furs, Fur trading, Hudson’s Bay Company, Captain Henry Toke Munn, Baffin Island, Yukon, Cover Art, Photographs
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- Shelfwear
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