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Last Kings of Thule

Malaurie, Jean

History

Cape, Jonathan

An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples.Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope. Heavily illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artifacts, and drawings, the book gives the readers the impression of having an entire museum of North Pole history in their hands. 650 color and black-and-white photographs

Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North

World

W.W.Norton&Company

"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie.

Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit

Literature & Fiction

United States

McGill-Queen's University Press

The first Frenchman to reach the North Pole by dog sled looks back on four decades of tumultuous change experienced by the Inuit people in the wake of their contacts with outsiders.

Call of the North: An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole

Travel

Harry N. Abrams

As climate change transforms the landscape of the ice sheet in Greenland and future industries prepare to extract precious metals and petroleum, Jean Malaurie addresses a younger generation of Inuit, caught between assimilation into Western societies and heritage of thinking with the earth and the environment. With his sweeping personal narrative as explorer, scientist, and goodwill ambassador for indigenous knowledge, Malaurie calls on these inhabitants of a young nation to preserve their cultural knowledge and develop a healthful relation between future and past forms of sustainable living.  It is urgent to recognize the prescience of indigenous populations and their obstinate will to respect the land on which they live—not as latecomers to our current times but as precursors to our future.

Letter to an Inuk from 2022 (Univocal)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Lettre à un Inuit de 2022

Literary

FAYARD

Les derniers rois de Thulé: Avec les Esquimaux polaires face à leur destin (Terre humaine) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

PLON

Hummocks tome 1 - Livre 1 Nord Groënland (1)

Anthropology

Pocket

L'Appel du nord

Editions de La Martinière

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