Author: Knud J. Rasmussen
Publisher: AMS Press
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 358
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ISBN: 0404116752
Dewey Decimal Number: 998.200497
EAN: 9780404116750
ASIN: 0404116752

Publication Date: April 1964
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Condition: New York; AMS Press; 1976; Reprint; Hardcover; Ex-Library; Very Good with no dust jacket; Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid copy.; Reprint of the 1908 ed. published by J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 105 leaves of plates; one folding. "It deals with the three distinct Eskimo branches which make up the population of Greenland, that is to say, with the West Greenlanders, the civilised and Christianised inhabitants of South-West and West Greenland; the East Greenlanders, formerly the inhabitants of the South-East coast, which is now quite deserted, except for the are of Angmagssalik, as is also the whole of the East coast; and with the Polar Eskimos. But, as its title implies, it is first and foremost an account of the most northerly dwelling people in the world, that is to say, of the little Eskimo group of nomads who wander from settlement to settlement between Cape York, North of Melville Bay, and Cape Alexander (approximately therefore between 76?