Give Me My Father's Body; The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
by Harper, Kenn
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- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0920245781
- ISBN 13
- 9780920245781
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Iqaluit: Blacklead Books [0-920245-78-1] 1989. (Trade paperback) 275pp. Very good. Maps, illustrations, photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography. Lightly shelfworn. "Give Me My Father's Body is the tragic story of Minik Wallace, a Polar Eskimo from north-western Greenland taken to New York in 1897 by the American explorer, Robert Peary. During his twelve years in America, Minik's adoptive family went from riches to rags, and Minik's own life was shattered with the trauma of discovering his father's skeleton on display in the American Museum of Natural History". Book about Robert E. Peary, Minik Wallace. Time Period 1910's & 19th Century. Locale: Arctic; Greenland. (Indigenous Peoples, Indians of North America, Indigenous Peoples).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155020
- Title
- Give Me My Father's Body; The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
- Author
- Harper, Kenn
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0920245781
- ISBN 13
- 9780920245781
- Publisher
- Blacklead Books
- Place of Publication
- Iqaluit
- This edition first published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Indigenous Peoples, Indians of North America, Indigenous Peoples
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ethnic Studies;
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