Compiled from the Danish Originals and Edited by G. Herring

Illustrations by Count Harald Moltke

By Knud Rasmussen

London: Paul Kegan, Trench, Trubner & Co. First Edition. 1908. [xix], 358pp., 1 coloured fold-out map bound at rear, 1 coloured frontis., 103 plates including 11 in colour with titled tissue guards. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. No prior ownership markings, a clean copy with beginning foxing on preliminaries. Very Good and complete copy of an important account. Compiled from the Danish originals and edited by G. Herring and illustrated by Count Herald Moltke. Arctic Bibliography 14228

A well-illustrated and very well-written narrative by the famous Danish Arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen. The book presents accounts of tribal life of remote Eskimos, including their religious and spiritual life, hunting, women, etc. This is an important and scarce book discussing and illustrating early Polar Eskimo life and culture primarily in Northeast Greenland. Scarce.

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