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Melanie McGrath Long Exile
Knopf 2007 0007157975 / 9780007157976 Paperback New
"Brand New, Paperback, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaherty made a film about the Canadian Arctic. ‘Nanook of the North ‘starred a mythical Eskimo hunter who lived in an igloo with his family in the peaceful Arctic wilderness. Nanook’s story captured the world’s imagination. The film was shown in Paris, Beijing and New York, and, for a while, Nanook’s face beamed from packets of flour and ice-cream as far away as Australia and Scotland. In Malaysia, Nanook became a word meaning ‘strong man’. Two years after the release of the film, the man who played Nanook – the Inuit hunter Alakarialak – starved to death on the Arctic ice. By this time, Robert Flaherty had quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph Flaherty, to grow up Eskimo. Thirty years later, in 1953, a young and inexperienced Irish-Canadian policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list of Inuit who were to ... ID: mon0000008572"
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Melanie McGrath The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
Knopf 2007 1400040477 / 9781400040476 Hardcover New
"McGrath tells the extraordinary tale of the Flaherty family and the Inuit people() In 1922 an Irish-American adventurer named Robert Flaherty made a film about Inuit life in the Arctic. Nanook of the North featured a mythical Eskimo hunter who lived in an igloo with his family in a frozen Eden. Nanook’s story captured the world’s imagination. Thirty years later, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from the east coast of Hudson Bay to a region of the high artic that was 1,200 miles farther north. Hailing from a land rich in caribou and arctic foxes, whales and seals, pink saxifrage and heather, the Inuit’s destination was Ellesmere Island, an arid and desolate landscape of shale and ice virtually devoid of life. The most northerly landmass on the planet, Ellesmere is blanketed in darkness for four months of the year. There the exiles were left to live on their own with little government support and few provisions. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the ID: mon0000122675"
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