Kayakmen

Tales of Greenland’s Seal Hunters

Torben Hutchings (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2017
International Polar Institute Press (Verlag)
978-0-9961938-4-9 (ISBN)

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Transcribed directly from hunters, the stories described here relate adventures in the hazardous environment of Greenland in the mid 19th century.

Greenlanders gained reliable social entertainment from the oral retelling of their legends. With the only printed material available at the time being of Christian origin, interest grew for Greenlandic stories, leading to the formation of Atuagagdliutit—the first, and still published, periodical in the country. The stories collected in Kayakmen originally appeared there. This text represents a firsthand account of the civilization of Greenlanders depicting a true picture of their age.

SIGNE RINK (nee Miller) was born in Greenland in 1836. At seventeen she was sent to Denmark to be educated. While there she met and married Johannes Rink, the geologist. Together they returned to Greenland and began many initiatives, including the first newspaper and in-depth studies of the Greenlandic culture. She is considered the first female interpreter of Greenlandic culture. TORBEN HUTCHINGS is part Danish and based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He gave up a career in chemistry to work as a freelance translator and run a small market stall.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-9961938-4-7 / 0996193847
ISBN-13	978-0-9961938-4-9 / 9780996193849
Zustand	Neuware