Last Gentleman Adventurer

Coming of Age in the Arctic

Description

At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no communication with the outside world and only one ship arrived each year. But he was not alone. The Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and became completely immersed in their culture, earning the name Issumatak, meaning ?he who thinks.?In The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Edward Beauclerk Maurice relates his story of coming of age in the Arctic and transports the reader to a time and a way of life now lost forever.
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Writer
Maurice, Edward Beauclerk
Title
Last Gentleman Adventurer
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Year
2006
Language
English
Pages
414
Weight
390 gr
EAN
9780618773589
Dimensions
197 x 127 x 19 mm
Binding format
Paperback

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