The Land of Feast and Famine

By (author) Ingstad, Helge

In the late 1920s, Helge Ingstad spent four years as a hunter and trapper in the Canadian Arctic. When he first arrived in the North, people in the river communities would bet on the arrival of the river boats - when he stopped at Fort Resolution on his way out, the bets were about planes. "The Land of Feast and Famine," originally published in 1931 and re-released by McGill-Queen's after more than forty years out-of-print, is a vivid depiction of Ingstad's adventures. He describes the native companions and fellow trappers with whom he shared both harsh and heart-warming experiences, and relates how he learned first-hand about beaver, caribou, wolf, and other wildlife. He also provides a remarkable body of information about native medicine. The arrival of the aviation age opened of the North, irrevocably changing the way of life of the Native people. "The Land of Feast and Famine" provides a fascinating glimpse of the Northwest Territories in the final days of the fur trading era.

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書名 The Land of Feast and Famine
著作者等 Ingstad, Helge
出版元 McGill-Queen's University Press
刊行年月 2001.06.30
版表示 New ed
ページ数 360p
大きさ H230 x W152
ISBN 9780773509122
言語 英語
出版国 カナダ
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