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The Last Gentleman Adventurer Coming of Age in the Arctic
by [Maurice, Edward Beauclerk]
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At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no communication with the outside world and only one ship arrived each year. But he was not alone. The Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and became completely immersed in their culture, earning the name Issumatak, meaning "he who thinks."
In The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Edward Beauclerk Maurice relates his story of coming of age in the Arctic and transports the reader to a time and a way of life now lost forever.
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- Mariner Books Brand
- Nov 1, 2006 Pub Date:
- 9780618773589 ISBN-13:
- 0618773584 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 8 in * 1.04 in * 5.1 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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