The people of the Polar north :
a record /
by Knud Rasmussen, comp. from the Danish originals and ed. by G. Herring ; illustrations by Count Harald Moltke.
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London :
K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.,
1908.
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Notes: | Colored plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letter-press. "'The people of the Polar north' has been compiled from the Danish originals recently published by the author in Copenhagen, under the titles of 'New people' and 'Under the lash of the north wind.' It deals with the three distinct Eskimo branches which make up the population of Greenland." --Editor's pref. Customs and manners, folk-lore, beliefs, etc., of the Greenland and Polar Eskimos. Physical description: xix, 358 p. : ill. (12 col., incl. ), folded map, ports. ; 26 cm. more |