Kabloona: Among the Inuit (Audiobook)

from alaskabookworm

While very dated in its language, Frenchman Poncins traveled to the high Canadian Arctic in the late 1930's and lived with the indigenous peoples for 15 months. His descriptions of the amazing adaptations to their difficult lives are not scientific, laced as they are with subjectivity, but very i...

from nancenwv

This book is extraordinary because it was written at a time when some Inuit were still relatively untouched by western civilization. De Poncins is honest about his initial negative reactions to arctic natives. He takes the reader through to the point where he more fully understands and is more co...