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Author:

Rink, Signe, compiler.

Title:

Kayakmen : tales of Greenland's seal hunters / collected by Signe Rink ; translated by Torben Hutchings.

Edition:

First English edition.

Publisher:

International Polar Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

127 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Sealing--Greenland--19th century.
Sealers (Persons)--Greenland--19th century.
Ammassalimiut Eskimos--19th century.
Eskimos--Greenland--19th century.

Other Authors:

Hutchings, Torben, translator.

Other Titles:

Kajakmænd, fortællinger af Grønlandske sælhundefangere. English

Contents:

A bear story / by J.H. by Hans Rasmussen -- A fishing trip / by Kristoffer Nielsen -- Hunting adventures / by Aparavigssuak -- A dangerous mail journey over the ice / by Casper Nielsen -- My pilot trip with the Americans / by David Danielsen -- On incidents where I have been endangered / by Karl Olrik -- Accounts from Kagssimiut / by Peter Motzfeldt -- Adventures and observations on things I have experienced / by Petrus Lynge -- On the sinking of our umiaq / by Ignatius -- What happened one time to the seal hunters at Kangamiut / by Jens Kreuzmann -- The narration of a Holsteinborger on one of his hunting trips / by Jens Baggeson -- On the danger that Amase's son Joel was put in around the time he started to hunt with a bladder / by Ungaralek -- On the Kivitut question / by Hans Rasmussen -- A bear story / by J.H.

Series:

Adventures in New Lands ; volume 10

ISBN:

9780996193849
0996193847

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959038682

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)