Gontran De Poncins Kabloona Among The Inuit (Gontran De Poncins)

9780786182336 Reynal and Hitchcock, New York 1996

Catergory: Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Nonfiction

This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938-39, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. But as de Poncins odyssey continues, he is transformed from Kabloona, The White Man, an uncomprehending outsider, to someone who finds himself living, for a few short months, as Inuk: a man, preeminently. Click to expand…
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