Ultima Thule : explorers and natives of the Polar North / by Jean Malaurie ; translated from the French by Willard Wood and Anthony Roberts. Uniform Title: Ultima Thule

New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 399 pages; Physical desc. : 399 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. (some col.) ; 35 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Greenland --Discovery and exploration --Arctic regions --Discovery and exploration --Americans --Europeans. Summary: Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, this text is the story of European and American exploration in the polar north. It aims to bring to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, who spent a year living among the Inuit, the situation is not altogether without hope. It is illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artefacts and drawings.