Travel to Provinces

Travelling Passions: Stefansson, the Arctic Explorer

Format: Hardcover
Author: Gisli Palsson
ReleaseDate: 13 September, 2005
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
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An Arctic's geography of the soul
Is like if you, yourself were traveling through the Arctic, in the turn of the century. This is one amazingly beautiful book, impeccably written, extremely well documented, and full of real life emotions. . . not only a beautiful disclosure of geography and The Powerful Inuit culture, but an astonishing book, full of the poetry, from the perspective of a very lonely man, who was brace enough to write lovely eulogies for the woman of his life. Gýsli Pýlsson has managed to give us a wonderful book, that depicts not only the life of the great Manitoba's born explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, but also to present a treaty of the life in the Arctic, and the amazing Inuit Culture, who for more than four millennia have been traveling and living in `A Vast Land' that some others have crossed in comfortable ships -under and above. This is a book that deserves a site of honor in a wonderful library. When Stefansson writes in his poem: "But if the prize of a woman's love falls not on me, neither on you, let us hide the affliction of a ruined life in hard work that is strong and true. . . for those who have built some fairest shrines,have been those denied a woman's love, therefore denied, the life of a happy man. . " You have only a hint of how excellent this book is.
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