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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.51
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Manufacturer: Invisible Cities Press Llc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: S. Allen Counter
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Publisher: Invisible Cities Press Llc
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Dewey Decimal Number: 998.20049712
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Upon hearing rumors that the men who discovered the North Pole had fathered sons while on their expedition, S. Allen Counter arranged to visit the remote villages where Robert Peary, the credited discoverer, and Matthew Henson, the black man whose contributions to the expedition are widely ignored, stayed during their travels. This book recounts the astonishing story of Counter's trips to Greenland and the relationships he develops with the Eskimo ancestors of the two men. At the same time, new evidence about Peary's journey to the Pole is examined, and it comes to light that Henson, was the true hero.
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Manufacturer: AMS Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Knud J. Rasmussen
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Publisher: AMS Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 998.200497
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Publication Date: 1964-04
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Reading Level: 358
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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Steerforth Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kenn Harper
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Publisher: Steerforth Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 998.20049712
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Publication Date: 2000-03
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Reading Level: 277
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Description: At last returning to print, Give Me My Father's Body is the thought-provoking tale of Minik, a young Inuit boy brought to New York by Robert Peary around the turn of the 20th century. Told simply and interspersed with personal letters and newspaper clippings, the book examines Minik's life both as a cross-cultural meeting place and a deeply personal search for a place to call "home." Photographs throughout of Minik give a glimpse into the incredible differences between the multiple worlds he inhabited, and how impossible it must have been to live in these worlds successfully. The title derives from one of Minik's more harrowing experiences--finding his father's bones displayed in a natural-history museum as a "curiosity"--and his attempts to retrieve the bones for a more respectful burial. Author Kenn Harper, while including many facts and articles about Arctic exploration, refrains from sharing opinions about the various explorers or their methods, choosing to share this story--and his years of research--plainly. From the death of Minik's birth father to the financial ruin of his American foster family, the events of Minik's childhood seem like one disaster after another, and his adulthood--the successful return to Greenland, followed by disappointment and a subsequent return to New York--is an unhappy struggle to find some kind of personal fulfillment. Questions of racial and cultural differences make an inescapable larger framework for Minik's life, and the emotions brought forward in answering those questions make reading this book a powerful experience. --Jill Lightner
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Univ of Chicago Pr (T)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jean Malaurie
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Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (T)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 998.200497
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Publication Date: 1985-10
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Reading Level: 489
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Manufacturer: Caedmon of Whitby
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: A.G.E. Jones
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Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby
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Publication Date: 1982-11-05
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Reading Level: 126
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Manufacturer: 21st Century
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Buell Janet
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Publisher: 21st Century
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Dewey Decimal Number: 998.2
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Publication Date: 1998-04-01
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Reading Level: 63
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: Describes the discovery of mummies in Greenland in 1972 and the work of forensic anthropologists who investigated the remains of these members of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Eskimos.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $8.59
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lynn Curlee
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 998
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Publication Date: 1998-03-30
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Reading Level: 40
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: Alien and wild, the far north has the powerful allure of the unknown, a call explorers have heeded for hundreds of years. First came the search for a route through the polar icecap to the rich lands of Asia. The Northeast and Northwest Passages were painstakingly traced. Then the race was on to one of the remotest points on earth - the North Pole. The desire for knowledge, wealth, adventure, and fame fueled expedition after expedition. Some Arctic explorers met with success and celebrity; others found madness and death; a few simply disappeared. Into the Ice, graced with majestic acrylic paintings, traces the slow unveiling of the secrets of this mysterious and forbidding frozen region.
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Manufacturer: Aldus
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Author: Thayer Willis
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Publisher: Aldus
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Publication Date: 1971
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Reading Level: 191
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Manufacturer: Chilton Books
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Author: George Simmons
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Publisher: Chilton Books
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Edition: 1st
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Publication Date: 1965
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Reading Level: 420
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Manufacturer: W.W. Norton
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Author: Laurence Kirwan
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Publisher: W.W. Norton
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Publication Date: 1960
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Reading Level: 374
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