Nunaga; ten years of Eskimo life
by Duncan Pryde
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Duncan Pryde went to work in northern Canada as a fur trader for the Hudson Bay Company at the age of 18. His many adventures & his warm relations with the Inuit are detailed in this volume.Tags
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When I taught in the NWT, it was said there was a lot of Pryde in the north I know now what they meant. Duncan Pryde was a man's man who took life by the horns and did what he wanted with it.
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- Canonical title
- Nunaga; ten years of Eskimo life
- Alternate titles
- Nunaga
- Original publication date
- 1971
- Dedication
- For Gina
- First words
- Twenty minutes north of the mouth of the River of Strangers, and past the bleak settlement the whiteman calls Churchill, the plane passed over the last few stunted trees, and we entered the Barren Grounds.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I found the romance I travelled thousands of miles for, and I have come through those times and like the Eskimos, my friends, I must look forward to new days, new opportunities, and like them, new responsibilities in Canada's Arctic.
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- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
- DDC/MDS
- 970.1 — History & geography History of North America History of North America North American Native Nations
- LCC
- E99 .E7 .P77 — History of the United States America Indians of North America Indian tribes and cultures
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- Languages
- English, French, Norwegian (Bokmål), Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 4
