A novel that is a journal of young Jonathan Horn, stranded in the Antarctic from a sealing expedition early in the 19th century.

Winter of the White Seal

Literature & Fiction

Herbert, Marie

Contemporary

William Morrow

The snow people

History

Americas

Barrie Jenkins

When she knew she was going to marry an explorer, Marie Herbert saw herself waiting long months at home for news from distant, uncharted areas ... Within two years she was living with her husband in a remote settlement of Polar Inuit. Wally Herbert had developed a profound respect for these independent hunters, who call themselves the Inughuit – the real people – during his many polar expeditions, and he wanted to help them make a record of their dying culture. Marie and Wally – along with their 10-month-old baby, Kari – decided to make this record from within: to go alone, and learn from the Inuit how to survive in this harsh, yet beautiful environment. Spirited, enthusiastic and sympathetic, Marie Herbert tells the fascinating story of two years of Arctic adventure: in doing so she has written an important anthropological account of a vanishing way of life.

The Snow People: Life Among the Polar Eskimos

Pan/Macmillan

Dust jacket notes: "When Marie Herbert set her heart on joining the annual spring migration of the reindeer Lapps of Northern Norway she would not allow herself to be easily discouraged, even though her first encounters with the Lapps were anything but friendly. Nevertheless, the discovery by Marie at the eleventh hour that she was to be the only woman in a party of four men - all of them strangers - and 600 reindeer gave her something to worry about. The journey which these nomads make every year from the high mountain plateaux to the coastal pastures in the north involves a great cross-country trek by sledge and snow-scooter through a wilderness of snow and ice, following the traditional migration routes used since Lapps followed the first wild reindeer. Her warm and lively account of this windswept winter journey with her four companions shows how initial trepidation turned into delight, as she shared the daily camp fire life and the stories of lynx and wolverine and found herself gradually accepted by these reserved but warm-hearted men with their infectious sense of humour and complete absorption in the reindeer that still constitute so vital a part of the Lapp economy...."

The Reindeer People: Travels in Lapland

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Snow People

Penguin Adult HC/TR

Winter of the white seal

Signet

In 1819, young Jonathan Horn becomes stranded in the Antarctic during a sealing expedition and adopts a young orphaned white seal as his sole companion

William Morrow & Co.

Thorndike Press

The Bible: Its Influence, Its Relations to Republican Government, and Its Necessity As a Text-Book of Ethics in the Public Schools

Nabu Press

The extraordinary description of Marie Herberts inner and outer journey toward renewed wholeness after the sudden, tragic death of her youngest daughter. Herbert's quest was made possible with the guidance of Jamie Sams, creator of best-selling Sacred Path and Medicine Cards. Sams helps Herbert redirect her journey into a healing quest.

Healing Quest: In the Sacred Space of the Medicine Wheel

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

RedWheel / Weiser

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