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Kabloona: Among the Inuit (Graywolf Rediscovery Series) Paperback – September 1, 1996

by Gontran De Poncins (Author), Lewis Galantiere (Author)

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This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938-39, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. But as de Poncins odyssey continues, he is transformed from Kabloona, The White Man, an uncomprehending outsider, to someone who finds himself living, for a few short months, as Inuk: a man, preeminently.

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362 pages
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Graywolf Press
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September 1, 1996
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5.48 x 1 x 8.78 inches
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1555972497
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978-1555972493
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In this 1941 volume De Poncins relates his 15 months spent among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He is initially appalled at their uncivilized lifestyle but eventually morphs from a "Kabloona" (a white man) to an Eskimo. A good volume for public and academic sociology collections.
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No other book about the Far North is written with so much sympathy, vividness and dramatic imagination.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Graywolf Press; First Edition Thus (September 1, 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 362 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1555972497
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1555972493
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.48 x 1 x 8.78 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,487,072 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #415 in Artic Polar Region Travel Guides
- #8,146 in Travelogues & Travel Essays
- #11,386 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies

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John P Dubosky

Kabloona

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Great copy of an old publication!

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Gerard D. Launay

Mesmerizing Tale of the Eskimos

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2005

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The audio CD is outstanding...indeed the best I have ever listened to. For one thing, the narrator is marvelous in recreating both the 1930's world of France and Frozen Canada. I can't think of any other book or audio that so successfully transported me into an alien culture. Considering that there are quite a few films and books about Eskimos, why buy this one written 70 years ago? Answer: the literary quality of this work surpasses the prose of the last quarter century. When you listen to the narrator weave his tale, it mirrors the experience of hearing a tobacco chewing explorer slowly recounting his adventures in the wild. The story dives deep into the interior life of the author as much as it details an ethnographic examination of (primitive) Inuit life. The myths and values of the Eskimos contrast sharply with the borgeouis morals of a gentleman of Paris. For example, in Eskimo culture, there is little concept of private property...that's why an Eskimo man will let you borrow his wife or a snow knife. Language in the arctic is far more concrete. A polar bear is HE WHO HAS NO SHADOW. Far away, in the cold Arctic, author Grontran De Poncins learns what it means to be human, a man preeminently. This is a romance, a classic reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe. If you buy the audio CD, you will not be disappointed.

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G. B. Harpole

Incredible life experience

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2011

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This is an exceptionally well written story about a personal experience of a man who chose to s spend the many long months of one winter living with Eskimos in the shadows of the north pole. Published in 1941 it describes a civilization that existed apparently without change for perhaps 20,000 years - before the introduction of gasoline run snowmobiles and concepts of pribate ownership. This is an incredible journal into the far distant past of civilization and communal living. This quality hard-back book is a true bargin as well as being a classical reading.

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George de Nagy

I read it and loved it when I was in my twenties and living ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016

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Kabloona is a classic true memoir of a Jesuit priest sent to the Arctic..I read it and loved it when I was in my twenties and living primitively in the cold and now my teen age son is reading and liking it.

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Tasha Collins

This is a rare and beautiful story written by a 19thcentury man of means who ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2018

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This is a rare and beautiful story written by a 19thcentury man of means who floundered and then found meaning and purpose while living with the Inuit who lived a Stone Age life. His detailed documentation gives a rare glimpse into the Inuit culture before contact with Europeans changed them.

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Daniels Laptop

Facinating

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014

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I read this book 10 years ago and never could get it out of my head. I had to read it again, recommend to to everyone, and own it. The author, the most interesting man in the world, changes as he lives with the Inuit. His insights on people, their environment, and relationships teaches him and us that underneath all the exterior trappings, we are more alike than different. One of the best books I've ever read.

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Outstanding Condition

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2020

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For an 80 year old book purchase this was in surprisingly good condition and even had the dust jacket. I'd buy again w/out hesitation.

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momindelrio

Eskimo tale

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2016

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I read Kabloona many years ago in the original brown cloth binding. I was very pleased to see that it is still in print & I'm enjoying my second time through. It is truly a classic.

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