My Eskimo Life by Paul-Emile Victor - 1938

London: Hamilton, 1938 cloth boards sunned, faded and soiled with a few paint splashes, otherwise internally clean tidy but aged copy, name to fep, rear hinge completely split with board pulling away, lacks rear fep, 338pp + plates, translated from French, author spends time with Greenland Eskimos. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The first edition of this scarce first hand account of Greenland in the early twentieth century. Written by French ethnologist Paul-Emile Victor. A very scarce work. This is the first English translation and is an important work in regards understanding the Inuit population of Greenland. This work consists of Victor's record of the daily events of his life, his contacts with the men, women, and children with whom he shared a hut, his adventures while hunting and fishing and the stories and songs he learned from his companions. Translated into English b y Jocelyn Godefroi. With the scarce original dustwrapper, which is unclipped.Illustrated throughout, with photographs of Victor's time in Greenland and the people he met. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice Back. Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey for many years.  He spent eight winters in the Antarctic and is a… Read More