The diary of Johannes Hansen
Subtitle: expedition to Eastern Greenland, 1884-1885
By: translated by Torben Hutchings ; afterword and footnotes by Signe Rink
Contributors: Hutchings, Torben, translator; Rink, Signe
Edition: First English edition.
Series: Adventures in new lands -- volume 6; Adventures in new lands -- v. 6.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780982915592
Subjects: Travel; Inuit; Description and travel; Diaries
Work titles: Vestgrønlænder kateket Hansêraks dagbog om de hedenske Østgrønlændere
Description: The catechist Johannes Hansen, called Hanserak, a Greenlandic missionary, was part of Captain Gustav Holm's well-known umiaq expedition to the east coast of Greenland (1884–1885), which passed the winter in Angmagssalik and discovered eleven Inuit communities. His diary is a series of interesting sketches of the remarkable customs and practices of the native people and was reported in the pages of Atuagagdliutit, the first Greenlandic newspaper.
Notes: Translated from the Danish, which was itself a translation from the original Inuktitut newspaper edition.