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Hunters of the Great North. E-book. Formato PDF Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
When first I went to the polar regions I came back at the end of a year and a half full of enthusiasm for the Arctic and for the Eskimos. Luckily that enthusiasm was translated into the organization of a second expedi tion that left for the North in seven months, and not into a book to be published then. As I look over my diaries of that time I shudder to think how vastly I might have augmented the already great misknowledge F of the Arctic had I published everything I imagined I had seen and everything I thought I knew.
The Northward Course of Empire. E-book. Formato PDF Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The idea of this book is doubtless old, though it came to me only about 1912. Perhaps it was old to the Medes and Persians. It may even have been an ancient revamping of it that led Solomon to remark that there is nothing new under the sun. In another sense the idea is so new that the history of it can be given brie?y. The winter of 1918-1919 representatives of chambers of commerce of various European countries were tour ing the United States. A dinner was given them in New York and at this I was called upon to make a five-minute talk. One of the sponsors of the dinner was Dr. Albert Shaw, the editor of the Review of Reviews. He said to me that the idea of my talk was new. When I reminded him of Solomon's well-known saying, he replied that at any rate it was new enough to make a suitable article for his magazine. He asked me to write the article and I said I would.
My Life With the Eskimo. E-book. Formato PDF Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
HE plans of my second expedition took gradual shape during the years 1906 — 1907, while I was still north of, the Arctic circle engaged in the work of my first expedition.