My Life with the Eskimo (Classic Reprint)

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My Life with the Eskimo (Classic Reprint)

CHAPTER I THE plans of my second expedition took gradual shape during the years 1906-1907, while I was still north of the Arctic circle engaged in the work of my first expedition. It was once intended that I should be the ethnologist of the Leffingwell-Mikkelsen Arctic Expedition, sometimes known as the Anglo-American Polar Expedition, which sailed from Victoria, British Columbia, in the spring of 1906. When the proposal was made to me I found it an attractive one in everything except this: that the expedition's schooner, the Duchess of Bedford, was unprovided with auxiliary motive power, and my book knowledge of Arctic conditions made me fear that she would never reach the proposed site of operations, the west coast of Victoria Island. Mr. Leffingwell and I therefore agreed that I should not join the expedition in Victoria as did its other members, but should go overland and down the Mackenzie River to meet them at Herschel Island, which lies about eighty miles west o

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Country	USA
Author	Vilhjalmur Stafansson
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781440071201
ISBN	1440071209
Label	Forgotten Books
Manufacturer	Forgotten Books
MPN	black & white illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	134
PartNumber	black & white illustrations
PublicationDate	2010-03-23
Publisher	Forgotten Books
Studio	Forgotten Books
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

My Life with the Eskimo (Classic Reprint)

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