The knife
By: Illustrated by Rus Anderson
Publisher: Gilbert Press; distributed by Messner
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Greenland -- Fiction.
Description: Fictional account of the introduction of the white man's implement into a polar Eskimo community in the Thule region of Greenland. Based on a narrative of Meksak, grandfather of Peter Freuchen's Eskimo wife, and on the legend of Saviksu, the meteoritic iron stones at Cape York brought away by Peary in 1897.
Notes: Also issued online.