Last Gentleman Adventurer

Coming of Age in the Arctic

Omschrijving

At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no communication with the outside world and only one ship arrived each year. But he was not alone. The Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and became completely immersed in their culture, earning the name Issumatak, meaning ?he who thinks.?In The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Edward Beauclerk Maurice relates his story of coming of age in the Arctic and transports the reader to a time and a way of life now lost forever.
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Schrijver
Maurice, Edward Beauclerk
Titel
Last Gentleman Adventurer
Uitgever
Houghton Mifflin
Jaar
2006
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
414
Gewicht
390 gr
EAN
9780618773589
Afmetingen
197 x 127 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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