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392 pages : 22 cm "At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company, the Company of Gentleman Adventurers, and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no telephone or radio and only one ship arrived each year. But the Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive expeditions in ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and became so immersed in their culture and way of life that children thought he was Inuit himself. When an epidemic struck, Maurice treated the sick using a simple first aid kit, and after a number of the hunters died, he had to start hunting himself, often with women, who soon began to compete for his affections. The young man who in England had never been alone with a woman other than his mother and sisters had come of age in the Arctic."--Publishers description Map printed on front board. Facsim. printed on end board

Author

Maurice, Edward Beauclerk

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007171637

Subjects

History, Management, Biography