Bøger udgivet af International Polar Institute Press

An interesting and captivating narrative about identity, social heritage and personal development.

Having devoted his life to study of the Eskimos, their language, spiritual life and religion, Thalbitzer found in their values his own mission to search for and preserve theirs

The goal of The Man Who Became a Caribou is to transmit to the reader the vast knowledge of the Gwich'in of caribou and its role in their lives, how it shapes their worldview and how they live and how it is used.

Catalog for an exhibition held at McGill University, February to April 2009, exploring the extensive holdings from its Rare Books & Special Collections.

The story of finding a people possessing a spirit which reminds all of us that the world we inhabit is both larger and more fragile than we could have imagined.

The Los Angeles Times praises the wordplay and the richness of Bergland's poetry, "erupting through deep forest, with all the exuberance and reticence of Emily Dickinson."

A "fatherless" Danish/Greenlandic girl exemplifies a generation of outcast mixed blood children denied their legal dual citizenship rights

The first English translation of a seminal Greenlandic novel

Narwhal tells the story of the whale that has captured the imagination of the world for centuries-it truly reveals an Arctic legend

First English translation of this 19th century novel tracing the relationship between traditional Greenlandic life and the interaction with the culture of their Danish colonizers

Nauja Lynge's novel is a call for temperance in the ongoing rush for Greenlandic independence from Denmark

The Inuit relationship with sea ice told through stories, artwork, and photographs

Transcribed directly from hunters, the stories described here relate adventures in the hazardous environment of Greenland in the mid 19th century.

Famine moves a Greenlandic family into a new settlement in the 1850's where the joys and tragedies of pre-Christian times are depicted

The book portrays this encounter in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the time. At the end of the novel comes a vision of a future, modern Greenland, freed from colonial humiliation and poverty: the first literary expression of the desire for progress which later became so prominent in Greenlandic poetry and politics.

A trip around Greenland to a distinct culture with no prior contact with the outside world

Summarizes Grenfell's first contact with the residents of Labrador