When the whalers were up North : Inuit memories from the Eastern Arctic / Dorothy Harley Eber
1989, 1st edition. Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #412613
ISBN: 0773507027
Physical description; 187 pp. : ill. (some col.). Contents; Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- In Cumberland Sound -- In Hudson Bay and the Strait -- Shamans and Whalers -- The Case of the Missing Whales -- Spicer’s Harbour -- The Siikatsi and the Wreck of the Polar Star -- Death of the Last Tuniit -- The Active -- Wintering -- Personalities of the Bay -- The Last Vessel at Marble Island -- The Wreck of the Seduisante -- The Active’s Last Voyage, 1912-13 -- The Last Whales -- Final Curtain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Whaling Canada, Northern History. Inuit Canada Hunting History. Eskimos Fishing Arctic regions. Biography. Whaling Arctic regions.
Price: €18.00