Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The Standardization of Error

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a time when Pamiungittok's son, Aglervittok, was a boy of about ten years or as Pamiungittok said, when he was big enough to walk all day behind the sled and to shoot ptarmigan; he was not big enough to hunt caribou. Aglervittok appears to be about twenty-five years of age although he may be thirty. It is therefore from fifteen to twenty years since this last visit. At that time there was nothing left of the iron of the Investigator except some big pieces that were so unwieldy they could not be handled by the Eskimo. The ship had long ago disappeared. Pamiungittok did not know how the break-up took place or when, but it was not very long after she was first discovered by the Eskimo. Ship's timbers and pieces of wreckage which they recognize as belonging to the Investigator have been found in Prince of Wales Strait at various points north of Ramsay Island. This shows not only the fact that the vessel has been broken up, which is not particularly interesting as it could have been surely predicted, but also the more interesting thing that the winds or currents, or both, in this section are such as to bring drift materials down from the north into Prince of Wales Strait. From the scarcity of driftwood on the south coast of Banks Island and Victoria Island and from its abundance in Prince of Wales Strait, as described by both the English navigators, it seems probable that this wood must have passed from the Mackenzie River north along the west coast of Banks Island and east around its north end. At present no people occupy Banks Island in summer although it is known to be fairly well stocked with both musk-oxen and caribou. The caribou, however, are not in such vast numbers here as in Victoria Island, which is filled by the migrations coming from the mainland in the spring altho...

The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum

The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions

The Friendly Arctic

Pemmican ...

The author details his experiment in extreme nutrition. This famous book extols the virtues of meat in the human diet.

Not by bread alone - Eating meat and fat for stay Lean and Healthy

Sir John Scott Keltie

Watt Espy

E. V. W. Keen

Letter 1919 June 27, New York to Sir John Scott Keltie, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.

Fünf Jahre Reisen im höchsten Norden. Mit 119 Abbildungen und 8 Karten

Länder der Zukunst

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 – 1962) was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist of Icelandic descent.

My Life With the Eskimo

Preliminary Ethnological Report

Clark Wissler

Reprint of the 1919 edition published by the American Museum of Natural History, issued as v.14 of its Anthropological papers. Includes a preliminary ethnological report by V. Stefansson and an account of the harpoons and darts in the Stefansson Collection by Clark Wissler.

Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition

Violet Irwin

Based on the Arctic Diaries of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The Shaman's Revenge

Discovery; the Autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. He wrote voluminously about his travels and observations, as did others. Stefansson's fame was partly fueled by a series of controversies involving envious competitors in the race for public recognition. While many anthropological works refer to his writings and he continues to be cited in ethnographic and historical works on indigenous peoples of the North American Arctic, particularly the Inuit, his successes in exploration (the discovery and mapping of some of the last remaining land on earth) have overshadowed his anthropological work. Writing on Ice utilizes his extensive fieldwork diaries, now in Dartmouth's Special Collections, and contemporary photographs and sketches, some never before published, to bring to life the anthropology of the Arctic explorer. Gísli Pálsson situates the diaries in the context of that era's anthropological practice, early 20th-century expeditionary power relations, and the North American community surrounding Stefansson. He also examines the tension between the rhetoric of ethnography and exploration (the notion of the "friendly Arctic") and the reality of fieldwork and exploration, partly with reference to Stefansson's silence about his Inuit family.

The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Writing on Ice

John Irvine Knight

Errol Lorne Knight

The Adventure of Wrangel Island

Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. For supplies he relied heavily on local resources, and he adopted the Eskimo way of living, thus successfully demonstrating his theory that the rigors of existence in the Arctic are much reduced by the use of such techniques. In this book, Stefansson tries by means of diaries and memories to tell the story of his first year among the Eskimos.

Hunters Of The Great North

"Die Landwirtschaft war ein mächtiger Faktor, der sowohl die menschliche Effizienz senkte als auch die Zivilisation voranbrachte... Praktisch jeder Schritt des Fortschritts wird von Nachteilen begleitet, die lange Zeit nicht korrigiert werden."

Die Geheimnisse einer optimalen Gesundheit durch die Rückkehr zur Ernährung unserer Vorfahren

Die fleischfressende Ernährung (Übersetzt)

Robert Lewis Shayon

Concern Stefansson's part in a radio play about the Canadian Arctic Expedition.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

About

Books

Join the club