People of the Deer
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Published: 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780285629202
First sentence: IN THE SPRING of 1935, when I was an undersized youth of fifteen, I made my first journey into arctic lands, under the tutelage of a great-uncle who was an amateur but fanatical student of birds.
Description: They were in harmony with the land but they were on the brink of extinction. Sixty years ago, the Ihalmiut numbered 7,000. When Farely Mowat visited them, their population had dwindled to forty. For two years, Mowat shared their hard life--the bleak winters, the shortages of food, the fervent struggle to withstand the intrusion of white men--and came to understand them.