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005    20151111143906.0 
008    150601s2015    maua     b    001 0beng   
010      2015019154 
019    877365981 
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020    0306822822|q(hardcover) 
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035    (OCoLC)910936242|z(OCoLC)877365981 
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100 1  Bown, Stephen R. 
245 10 White Eskimo :|bKnud Rasmussen's fearless journey into the
       heart of the Arctic /|cStephen R. Bown. 
250    First Da Capo Press edition. 
264  1 Boston, MA :|bDa Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books
       Group,|c2015. 
300    xxv, 341 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A Merloyd Lawrence book." 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Prologue: "I must go and see the New People" -- Part One. 
       New Sun -- On Greenland's Stony Shores -- The Temptations 
       of Copenhagen -- The Danish Literary Expedition -- Part 
       Two. Midnight Sun -- The New People -- The Kingdom of the 
       North Wind -- The First Thule Expedition -- Before the Eye
       of Day -- Ground Dearly Paid For -- A Time for Dreaming --
       Part Three. Return of the Moon -- The Land Beyond the 
       Great Sea -- The Great Sled Journey -- Part Four. Northern
       Lights -- Records of a Vanishing World -- Final Journeys -
       - Epilogue: Timeless Stories. 
520 2  "While Amundsen, Franklin, and Peary were first to explore
       the furthest geographical reaches of the Polar North, Knud
       Rasmussen was the first to explore its culture and its 
       soul. Part Danish, part Inuit, the famed explorer 
       anthropologist made an epic three year journey by dog sled
       from Greenland to Alaska recording not only the landscapes
       but also the songs and stories of the Eskimo people. In 
       the ranks of the great explorer/writers who opened 
       hitherto impenetrable cultures to the West--T.E. Lawrence 
       in the Mideast, Wilfred Thesiger among the Bedouin, 
       Richard Burton in Africa or among the Sufi--Rasmussen 
       stars not only for his physical courage and ability to 
       assimilate into the life of indigenous peoples, but also 
       for the beauty of his writing. Across Arctic America and 
       his collection of Eskimo songs and stories are classics of
       Polar literature. There has been no full-scale biography 
       of Rasmussen in English, and Stephen Bown's splendidly 
       received life of Roald Amundsen makes him the perfect 
       writer to record the great journeys and fascinating life 
       of the Inuit from Greenland through the Northwest Passage,
       to Alaska"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Rasmussen, Knud,|d1879-1933. 
600 10 Rasmussen, Knud,|d1879-1933|xTravel|zArctic regions. 
650  0 Explorers|zDenmark|vBiography. 
650  0 Anthropologists|zDenmark|vBiography. 
650  0 Racially mixed people|zDenmark|vBiography. 
650  0 Inuit|xSocial life and customs. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.
       |2bisacsh 
651  0 Arctic regions|xDiscovery and exploration|xDanish. 
651  0 Greenland|xDiscovery and exploration|xDanish. 
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