Houston, James

The white dawn : an Eskimo saga: a novel / by James Houston; drawings by the author. - London : Heinemann, 1971. - viii, 275 p. : ill., maps (on lining papers) ; 23 cm.

In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world


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Eskimos--Fiction