Ultima Thule  -  Jean Malaurie

Explorers and Natives in the Polar North

KORTE INHOUD

An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples. Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found....
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2003 Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company 384 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0393051501 ISBN-13: 9780393051506