Kabloonaby Gontran de Poncins | |
| List(s): | "Extreme Classics" |
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| Category: |
"Travel" |
| Pages: | 322 |
| Year of Publication: | 1941 |
| Date Added: | 01/29/2010 |
| Date Read: | 08/28/2015 |
| Notes: | Frenchman Poncins, in 1938, traveled to the Canadian Arctic and spent a year living with Eskimos — sleeping in igloos, traveling by dogsled, hunting seal and caribou. He immersed himself into the lifestyle, one of communal living, little sense of ownership and no consideration for time. For the natives, any way of living other than their own was ridiculous and unfathomable. He spent a month with an isolated Catholic missionary who lived in a hole cut into a cliff and several months in a shack with a Hudson Bay trader. |
| My Rating: | 6 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2015-08-28 16:40:23
