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The white dawn : an Eskimo saga

Title
  1. The white dawn : an Eskimo saga / by James Houston ; drawings by the author.
Published by
  1. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., [1971]
  2. ©1971
Author
  1. Houston, James, 1921-2005

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Description
  1. viii, 275 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm
Summary
  1. In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world.
Subject
  1. Eskimos > Juvenile fiction
  2. Whalers (Persons) > Juvenile fiction
  3. Eskimos
  4. Whalers (Persons)
  5. Sozialanthropologie
Genre/Form
  1. Fictional Work
  2. Juvenile works
  3. Fiction
  4. Aufsatzsammlung
  5. Juvenile works.
  6. Fiction.
  7. Romans.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library