Across the Keewatin Icefields: Three Years Among the Canadian Eskimos, 1913-1916

By Christian Leden

Book Overview

Dramatic vignettes of life on the tundra highlight this journal, sub-titled Three Years Among the Canadian Eskimos, 1913-1916, by the Norwegian traveller, Christian Leden. He writes vividly, in the present tense, giving a feeling of intimacy to his accounts of travel and the hunt some eighty years ago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9204864605
• ISBN13: 9789204864601
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Watson and Dwyer
• Length: 256 Pages

Customer Reviews

Great Adventure Story

I recently bought this book second hand thinking I might enjoy looking at some of the pictures. Travel journals are not my thing.I only read a few paragraphs and I was hooked. It's a fantastic adventure story by an 'ordinary' guy. He frequently gets the wrong end of the stick (and thanks to editor's notes you'll be able to tell when), but his warmth and humanity always show through. This is less a story about Inuits than it is about a man who finds himself in an alien culture and a harsh environment. The narrative is often funny, always entertaining, and occasionally moved me to tears.