Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic NarrativeJohn Moss The North has always had, and still has, an irresistible attraction. This fascination is made up of a mixture of perspectives, among these, the various explorations of the Arctic itself and the Inuk cultural heritage found in the elders' and contemporary stories. This book discusses the different generations of explorers and writers and illustrates how the sounds of a landscape are inseparable from the stories of its inhabitants. Published in English. |
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... cold Soper had ever experienced . In his day journal he wrote : The whole day has been an unceasing battle with the cold . It is pos- itively forbidding , savage , and sinister in its intensity - quite unlike the more moderate cold of ...
... cold Soper had ever experienced . In his day journal he wrote : The whole day has been an unceasing battle with the cold . It is pos- itively forbidding , savage , and sinister in its intensity - quite unlike the more moderate cold of ...
Page 84
... cold that is found in those places . And how in that last Voyage , the Shippe was so inclosed by the Ice , that it was left there , whereby the men were forced to build a house in the cold and desart Countrie of Noua Zembla , wherein ...
... cold that is found in those places . And how in that last Voyage , the Shippe was so inclosed by the Ice , that it was left there , whereby the men were forced to build a house in the cold and desart Countrie of Noua Zembla , wherein ...
Page 85
... cold " " ( 39 ) . We were not , you see , Canadians . But while we tried to build a shed , our carpenter died , and “ it froze so hard that as we put a nail in our mouths , there would ice hang thereon when we took it out again , and ...
... cold " " ( 39 ) . We were not , you see , Canadians . But while we tried to build a shed , our carpenter died , and “ it froze so hard that as we put a nail in our mouths , there would ice hang thereon when we took it out again , and ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Documenting the Oral History of the Inuvialuit | 7 |
An Arctic Affair | 15 |
Copyright | |
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