This is a superb, first-person, real life story of the adventures of a Frenchman before WWII who spends a year with Eskimos in the Canadian Arctic. Unlike the situation at present, at the time the Eskimos were living an entirely traditional life, untainted in any way by the modern consumer culture enjoyed by white Canadians far to the south. No motorboats, no snowmobiles, no shops or stores or even Canadian government social workers, all Eskimos at the time still spent the winter in traditional igloos eating raw seal blubber. The reactions of a real Parisian living among them are fascinating.

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