My life among the Eskimos : Baffinland journeys in the years 1909 to 1911 / by Bernhard Hantzsch ; translated from the German original and edited by Leslie H. Neatby.

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  1. My life among the Eskimos : Baffinland journeys in the years 1909 to 1911 / by Bernhard Hantzsch ; translated from the German original and edited by Leslie H. Neatby.
Published by
  1. Saskatoon, [Sask.] : University of Saskatchewan, 1977.
Author
  1. Hantzsch, Bernhard, 1875-1911

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Additional authors
  1. Neatby, Leslie H.
Description
  1. xxii, 396 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
  1. "Bernhard Adolph Hantzsch's journal documenting his scientific expedition to the west coast of Baffin Island. Hantzsch and his crew endured treacherous conditions including illness, hunger, equipment problems as well as the horrific Arctic weather. Hantzsch survived this journey only to die months later on an expedition to Antarctica. A detailed documentation of an incredible adventure."--Ebay seller.
  2. "Bernhard Adolf Hantzsch, explorer, ornithologist (d near the mouth of Hantzsch R, NWT June 1911). Hantzsch sailed with a German ornithological expedition to the eastern Arctic in 1906 and during that summer explored and collected specimens along the coast of Ungava Bay and northern Labrador. From 1909 to 1911, he was part of a larger expedition, sponsored by the Geographical Soc of Dresden. On the way to Cumberland Sd his ship was wrecked and most of his supplies were lost. He made his way to a whaling station on Blacklead I, then to one at Kekerten. He crossed Baffin I on foot, making ornithological and ethnological observations, and in 1910 travelled with a party of Inuit to Foxe Basin where he continued his observations. On his death, which was probably of trichinosis, he was buried by the Inuit, who returned to Cumberland Sd with his journals."--Canadian Encyslopedia.
Series statement
  1. Mawdsley memoir series ; 3
Uniform title
  1. Mawdsley memoir 3.
Subject
  1. Hantzsch, Bernhard, 1875-1911
  2. Eskimos > Baffin Island
  3. Baffin Island (Nunavut) > Description and travel
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies
Contents
  1. I. Introduction -- II. From homeland to Baffin Island -- III. How we passed the winter on Blacklead Island -- IV. How the Eskimos passed the winter on Blacklead Island -- V. My winter occupation -- VI. Departure on the journey to the west: from Blacklead Island to the Islet of Nuvujen -- VII. Stay at Juvujen: final departure -VIII. Passage of Netschillik Fiord as far as Kikkertaluk Island -- IX. Further ascent of Fiord to Ikarktalik Island -- X. From Ikarktalik to Kangianga, end of the Fiord -- XI. From Kangianga to Ischoa on Lake Netschillik -- XII. Sledgejourney on Lake Netschillik from Ischao to Tikkerakdjuk -- XIII. Summer camp at Tikkerakdjuk -- XVI. Down to Foxe Channel -- XV. From the mouth of the Kokdjuak to the winter camp -- XVI. The winter camp on Foxe Channel -- XVII. Journey's end.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 378.
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