Eskimo Life
Author(s):
Nansen, Fridtjof
Copyright: 1894, Longmans, Green, London
Specifications: 2nd, 8vo, pp.xvi, 350, frontis, 15 plates, 15 woodcuts, green lib cloth
Condition: xlib, cloth mottled on back, # on spine, bookplate & pocket on eps, # on title-page, no other markings, clean, tight, vg
A detailed sociological and cultural commentary on many aspects of Greenland Eskimo life – appearance and dress, the kayak, at sea, houses and tents, cooking, character and social conditions, women, marriage, morals, judicial proceedings, art, music, and poetry, religious ideas, Christianity. A classic work.