The white dawn
Subtitle: an Eskimo saga
By: by James Houston ; drawings by the author
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Eskimos
Description: In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world.
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