An English missionary who lived for twelve years among the Inuit of Baffin Island describes the voyage north and the land itself, then the daily life of the people: snow-houses and summer tents, seal and walrus hunting, dogs and sledges, clothing, games, storytelling in the long twilight, and their beliefs about spirits and the dead. Its language of “primitive” peoples is that of 1923.
A detailed, sympathetic record of Arctic life before great change. Download the free EPUB.