Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North

by Jean Malaurie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393051501
• ISBN13: 9780393051506
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 6.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.8" x 13.7"