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Author: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur Title: Hunters of the Great North Year: 1922 Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Pages: 357 Source: Google Books Description: A personal account of the Anglo-American Polar Expedition of 1906-07, Stefansson's first expedition to the arctic. "The purpose of the expedition was to explore the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska in an effort to find new land, if not a new continent" (Diubaldo 1978:16). "In the present book I have tried by means of diaries and memory to go back to the vivid impressions of my first year among the Eskimos for the story of what I saw and heard. I have tried to tell the story as I would have told it then, except that the mature knowledge of ten succeeding years has been used to eliminate early faults of observation and conclusions. A good many interesting stories found in the diaries of my first arctic voyage do not appear in this book because I now know them to have been based on misapprehensions. In a sense, the book is therefore less interesting than if I had published it fourteen years ago—but less interesting only to the extent in which it is more true" (Stefansson, from the Preface, 1922:iv). External Link | Download PDF (7.1 MB)
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