Hunters of the great north / by Vilhjalmur Stefansson .
"In the present book I have tried by means of diaries and memory to go back to the vivid impressions of my first year among the Eskimos for the story of what I saw and heard. I have tried to tell the story as I would have told it then, except that the mature knowledge of ten succeeding years ha...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt, Brace and Co.,
[1922]
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "In the present book I have tried by means of diaries and memory to go back to the vivid impressions of my first year among the Eskimos for the story of what I saw and heard. I have tried to tell the story as I would have told it then, except that the mature knowledge of ten succeeding years has been used to eliminate early faults of observation and conclusion. A good many interesting stories found in the diaries of my first arctic voyage do not appear in this book because I now know them to have been based on misapprehensions. In a sense, the book is therefore less interesting than if I had published it fourteen years ago--But less interesting only to the extent in which it is more true"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 301 pages, plates) : 2 maps |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |