Abstract
IN this volume Mr. Stefansson recounts some of his early experiences in the Arctic when he was a member of the Lemngwell expedition in 1906–7. He tells of his travels with the Eskimo, how they taught him to hunt, to accept their diet and mode oflife, to build snow houses and generally to live in comfort in a region which people will persist in regarding as inhospitable in the extreme. It is a volume of the lore of the Arctic full of vivid descriptions and personal incidents. The chapters on hunting contain a great deal of the natural history of the caribou, polar bear and seal, and there is of course much of interest regarding the Eskimo. Mr. Stefansson has given us no book of polar travel of greater interest than this volume. It should _help to dispel some of the current fallacies regarding the Arctic climate and conditions of life in the far north. The call of the north is in its pages, which will awaken memories among those who know the ice, and stir others with a longing to go and see.
Hunters of the Great North.
Vilhjalmur
Stefansson
By. Pp. 288 + 16 plates + 2 maps. (London, Calcutta and Sydney: G. G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
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B., R. Hunters of the Great North. Nature 112, 685 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112685c0
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