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Kenn Harper
Arctic historian Kenn Harper takes readers alongside Knud Rasmussen's spearheading Fifth Thule Expedition.
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A true story from the great age of Arctic exploration of an Inuit boy’s struggle for dignity against Robert Peary and the American Museum of Natural History in turn-of-the-century New…
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Volume two of this series shares tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters-as well as the wrongfully accused-in the early days of Northern colonization.
Volume three of this series shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.
Volume four of this series shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist-and sometimes clash-in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Historian Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit who played a pivotal role in the expeditions of some of the most famous Arctic explorers, including the unfortunate John Franklin.
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High Arctic, 1920: Three Inuit men delivered justice to an abusive Newfoundland trader. This is a story of fur trade rivalry and duplicity, isolation and abandonment, greed and madness, and…
Volume one of this series shares the unique challenges and life histories of several Inuit living in pre-contact times.