Mementos

1925 · ref. 25740 — New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket modest wear to extremities some soiling to edges of text block spine slightly turned; binding solid internally quite clean. pen and ink drawings one map Something of an adventure-novelization of incidents presented by Stefansson in his 1913 book "My Life with the Eskimo." Stefansson a U.S.-based Canadian-born anthropologist of Icelandic extraction eventually became a somewhat controversial figure but in earlier times in particular between 1906 and 1912 was responsible for leading important explorations of the Canadian Arctic region and gained a lot of attention for his observations and writings about the life and culture of the Copper Inuit the so-called "blond Eskimos". . The Macmillan Company hardcover books