Hunters Of The Great North

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

• Publisher: Wolfenden Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473389502
• Print ISBN:
  9781406710809

Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. For supplies he relied heavily on local resources, and he adopted the Eskimo way of living, thus successfully demonstrating his theory that the rigors of existence in the Arctic are much reduced by the use of such techniques. In this book, Stefansson tries by means of diaries and memories to tell the story of his first year among the Eskimos.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preparations for a Lifework of Exploration
• Down the Mackenzie River Through 2,000 Miles of Indian Country
• First Impressions of the Eskimos
• Captain Klinkenberg—Sea Wolf and Discoverer
• The Whaling Fleet Sails Away
• Learning to Live as an Eskimo—On a Diet of Fish Without Salt
• How an Eskimo Sailed Through the Storm
• An Autumn Journey Through Arctic Mountains
• The Sun Goes Away for the Winter
• Lost in the Mackenzie Delta
• An Arctic Christmas with an English Country Gentleman
• The Life at Tuktuyaktok
• Learning to Build a Snowhouse and to Be Comfortable in One
• Travels After the Sun Came Back
• We Go in Search of Our Own Expedition
• A Spring Journey in an Eskimo Skin Boat
• A Race over the Arctic Mountains in Summer
• On a Raft down the Porcupine River
• How I Learned to Hunt Caribou
• How I Learned to Hunt Seals
• How We Hunt Polar Bears