In Those Days: Inuit Lives

by Kenn Harper

Overview

Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books.

Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will cover a particularly fascinating aspect of traditional Inuit life. In volume one, Inuit Biographies, Harper shares the unique challenges and life histories of several Inuit living in pre-contact times.

The result of extensive interviews, research, and travel across the Arctic, these amazing short life histories provide readers with a detailed understanding of their specific time and place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772272772
Publisher:	Inhabit Media
Publication date:	12/13/2013
Series:	In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of the In Those Days series, Minik: The New York Eskimo, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic. “Taissumani,” his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News.

Editorial Reviews

All the profiles of Inuit in this collection are interesting and the illustrations Harper has collected are first-rate.”—Telegram

“. . . [I]t’s the author’s frankness, compassion, and intimate knowledge of Inuit life that makes every single one of these stories resonate.”—The Arctic Book Review

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