num_pages: 339
description: Kabloona is a true story of a journey into the North. This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure travel anthropology and spiritual awakening. In the summer of 1938 the Frenchman Gontran de Poncins traveled beyond the Barren Lands north of the Arctic Circle to Kind William Island an island of ten thousand square miles. The entire population of the island consisted of twenty-five Eskimos their primitive lives untouched by the civilization of the white man. For fifteen months Gontran de Poncins lived among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish sleeping with each others' wives ignoring schedules and helping themselves to his possessions. But as de Poncins's odyssey continues he is transformed from Kabloona The White Man an uncomprehending outsider to someone who finds himself living for a few short months as Inuk: a man preeminently.
language: English
title: Kabloona
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub