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  • In Those Days: Inuit Lives

    by Kenn Harper ...
    Series Book 1 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will cover a particularly fascinating aspect of traditional Inuit life. In volume one, Inuit Biographies, Harper shares the unique challenges and life histories of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Minik: The New York Eskimo

    An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People

    by Kenn Harper ...
    The gripping true story of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity and belonging in turn-of-the-century New York City during the age of Arctic exploration“Impeccably researched and gracefully written, this is an essential book."–Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship FeverSailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Breathing Hole

    by Colleen Murphy ...
    Translated by Janet Tamalik McGrath ...
    Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on ice near a breathing hole. Despite the concerns of her community, she adopts him and names him Angu’ruaq. In 1845, Angu’ruaq and his mate Ukuannuaq wander into a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs

    Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition

    by Kenn Harper ...
    In Give Me Winter, Give Me Dogs, Arctic historian Kenn Harper takes readers alongside Knud Rasmussen’s spearheading Fifth Thule Expedition. From 1921 to 1924, Rasmussen trekked across Canada’s Arctic to study Inuit there and record their stories, and perhaps most importantly to him, to immerse himself in their culture and to know them. With the support of his colleagues and Inuit guides, Rasmussen ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Thou Shalt Do No Murder

    Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic

    by Kenn Harper ...
    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 a struggle for the affections of an Inuit woman during a time of major social change in the High Arctic. Doubts over the validity of Canadian sovereignty and an official agenda to confirm that sovereignty added ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers

    by Kenn Harper ...
    Series Book 5 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    In the fifth volume of the In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History series, Kenn Harper shares tales of European explorers who came to the Arctic seeking adventure, riches, and the elusive Northwest Passage, and Inuit they encountered there. Inuit were invaluable in adding to Western knowledge of the Arctic, serving as guides, clothing-makers, and interpreters. But not every meeting was ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment

    by Kenn Harper ...
    Series Book 2 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North

    by Kenn Harper ...
    Series Book 4 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist—and sometimes clash—in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to proselytize among the Inuit, with often unexpected and sometimes tragic results. This collection includes stories of shamans and priests, hymns and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling

    by Kenn Harper ...
    Series Book 3 - In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
    In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors braved the treacherous Arctic waters, risking starvation, scurvy, and death, to bring home the bounty of the North. The presence of these whalemen ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • Ice Ghosts

    The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

    by Paul Watson ...
    "Intriguing [and] enjoyable." —Ian McGuire, New York Times Book ReviewIce Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Man Who Ate His Boots

    The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

    by Anthony Brandt ...
    After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of the Pole

    An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912

    by S.L. Osborne ...
    In the Shadow of the Pole explains how the Arctic came to be part of Canada.In the Shadow of the Pole tells the history of how the Arctic became part of Canada and how the Dominion government established jurisdiction there. It describes the early expeditions to Canada’s North, including the little-known Dominion government expeditions to the Subarctic and Arctic carried out between 1884 and 1912. ... Read more

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