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Between 1921 and 1924, Knud Rasmussen led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across the top of North America. The full scientific report of that 20,000-mile trek by dog sled from Greenland to Siberia, known to history as the Firth Thule Expedition, fills ten volumes. This single volume, Across Arctic America, is Rasmussens own reworking and condensation of his two-volume popular account written in Danish, and gives the essence of his experience of the Arctic and its people. It was the people who most captivated the Greenland-born Rasmussen, who had become a virtual adopted son to the Eskimos of the far northern district still known by the name of the trading post he established there, Thule. His first four Thule Expeditions extended the limits of the known world in Greenland solely, but Rasmussens Fifth Thule Expedition demonstrated the unity of the Eskimo world from the Atlantic Ocean to the Chukchi Sea, proving the people all shared the same basic language and culture. As historian Terrence Cole notes in his introductory biography, The intellectual and spiritual life of the people themselves were his primary interest, not simply geographical discovery, and thus even when following the tracks of previous explorers, he found uncharted territory. His basic principle was to first earn the trust of the local people by showing understanding and patience: living with the people and not apart from them, sharing their work and their food. That was how Rasmussen approached the entire Arctic: he did not live apart from it, skimming over its surface like the fame-seeking polar explorers of the time such as Peary and Cook, but immersed himself in itso successfully that a Canadian Inuit elder once marveled that he was the first white man [he had ever seen] who was also an Eskimo. Of most significance to readers today, though, is that Rasmussen was also a noted writer. He wanted to share not just the observations he made but the feelings he experienced, and so in Across Arctic America offered what fellow arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson described as not only a work of literary charm but also one of the deepest and soundest interpretations of Eskimo life ever put into a book. This volume, published in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Fifth Thule Expedition, includes an introduction by Classic Reprint Series editor Terrance Cole and an index.

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title:Across Arctic America : Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition Classic Reprint Series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; No. 6
author:Rasmussen, Knud.
publisher:University of Alaska Press
isbn10 | asin:0912006935
print isbn13:9780912006932
ebook isbn13:9780585186252
language:English
subjectThule Expedition--(5th :--1921-1924) , Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration, Eskimos.
publication date:1999
lcc:G700.R3813 1999eb
ddc:919.8
subject:Thule Expedition--(5th :--1921-1924) , Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration, Eskimos.
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Across Arctic America
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Across Arctic America
Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
By KNUD RASMUSSEN
With Introduction By TERRENCE COLE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA PRESS FAIRBANKS - photo 3
With Introduction By
TERRENCE COLE
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA PRESS FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933.
[Fra Grnland til Stillehavet. English]
Across Arctic America: narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition/by Knud Rasmussen; with introduction to the 1999 edition by Terrence Cole.
p. cm. (Classic reprint series; no. 6)
Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-912006-93-5 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-912006-94-3
(pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Thule Expedition (5th: 1921-1924) 2. Arctic regions-Discovery
and exploration. 3. Eskimos. I. Title. II. Series:
Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska); no. 6.
G700 1921.R3813 1999
919.8 dc21Picture 4 98-32117
CIP
Originally published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York London.
Introduction to the 1999 Edition by Terrence Cole 1999 University of Alaska Press
International Standard Book Number: cloth 0-912006-93-5
paper 0-912006-94-3
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 98-32117
Printed in the United States.
This publication was printed on acid-free paper that meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Publication coordination by Deborah Gonzalez, University of Alaska Press
Cover design by Dixon Jones, Rasmuson Library Graphics, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Index prepared by Kish Indexing Service
Across Arctic America is volume No. 6 of the University of Alaska Press's Classic Reprint Series. This series brings back into print highly regarded, classic works of enduring excellence. For more information contact the University of Alaska Press, P.O. Box 756240, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775-6240.
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Contents
Illustrations
vii
Introduction to the 1999 Edition by Terrence Cole
xi
Introduction
xxix
Chapter
I Old Friends in New Skins
3
II Takornaoq Entertains Gentlemen Friends
12
III A Wizard And His Household
18
IV Finger-Tips of Civilization
36
V A People Beyond the Touch
55
VI Nomad's Life in the Barren Grounds
71
VII With no Editors to Spoil
87
VIII Between Two Winters
102
IX Faith Out of Fear
118
X "I Have Been so Happy!"
139
XI Separate Ways
154
XII Stepping Out
158
XIII Going Pretty Far With the Spirits
176
XIV AN Innocent People
188
XV Truly Thankful
201

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XVI From Starvation to Savagery
218
XVII Belated Honors
237
XVIII AN EXUBERANT FOLK
243
XIX The Play of Spirit
255
XX The Battle With Evil
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