Walking on the Land

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Description

The use of one in every of his own trips in the course of the Eastern Arctic as a kick off point, Farley Mowat interweaves the stories of the Barren Ground Inuit with stunning, lyrical descriptions of the Northern landscape.

With great beauty and terrible anguish, Mowat traces the history of the Inuit, revealing how the coming of the Kablunait — white man — within the early a part of the century and the following obliteration of the caribou herds combined to unleash a series of famines and epidemics that just about wiped out the Barren Ground Inuit population.

Full of larger-than-life characters — old-time Hudson’s Bay company men, eccentric priests, wild bush pilots and well-meaning interlopers — Walking at the Land is an unforgettable account by one in every of Canada’s most committed and impassioned voices.


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