TITLE:
Ultima Thulé : explorers and natives in the polar North / Jean Malaurie ; translated from the French by Willard Wood and Anthony Roberts.
By:
Publication Date:
2003
Publication Information:
New York : Norton,
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Description:
399 p. : col. ill., maps.
Geographic Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 399) and index.
Summary:
Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780393051506
