Kayakmen : tales of Greenland's seal hunters / collected by Signe Rink ; translated by Torben Hutchings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rink, Signe, compiler.

Contributor:

Hutchings, Torben, translator.

Series:

Adventures in new lands ; v. 10.

Adventures in new lands ; volume 10

Standardized Title:

Kajakmænd, fortællinger af grønlandske sælhundefangere. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Sealing--Greenland--19th century.

Sealing.

Sealers (Persons)--Greenland--19th century.

Sealers (Persons).

Ammassalimiut Eskimos--19th century.

Ammassalimiut Eskimos.

Eskimos--Greenland--19th century.

Eskimos.

Greenlanders--Social life and customs.

Greenlanders.

Greenland.

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Edition:

First English edition.

Distribution:

[Lebanon, New Hampshire] : University Press of New England

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : International Polar Institute Press, 2016.

Contents:

Preface / by Signe Rink

A fishing trip / by Kristoffer Nielsen

Hunting adventures / by Aparavigssuak

A dangerous mail journey over the ice / by Casper Nielsen

My pilot trip with the Americans / by David Danielsen

On incidents where I have been endangered / by Karl Olrik

Accounts from Kagssimiut / by Peter Motzfeldt

Adventures and observations on things I have experienced / by Petrus Lynge

On the sinking of our umiaq / by Ignatius

What happened one time to the seal hunters at Kangamiut / by Jens Kreuzmann

The narration of a Holsteinborger on one of his hunting trips / by Jens Baggeson

On the danger that Amase's son Joel was put in around the time he started to hunt with a bladder / by Ungaralak

On the Kivitut question / by Hans Rasmussen

A bear story / by J.H.

ISBN:

9780996193849

0996193847

OCLC:

959038682

Publisher Number:

90104360811