wyszukanych pozycji: 6
When the Whalers Were Up North : Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic
ISBN: 9780773514218 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The author tells a story drawn from oral memories, a story which will soon disappear with the last Inuit generation to have seen the whalers. Illuminated by a remarkable collection of drawings, photographs, and illustrations, many in full colour, tales are told of when the whalers first appeared on the north-east coast of Baffin Island, how they set up land stations in the whale-rich waters of Cumberland Sound, and how they eventually pushed on into Hudson Bay. During this time the Inuit not only fed and clothed the whalers, they hunted with them, adding to the whalers' wealth. Our...
The author tells a story drawn from oral memories, a story which will soon disappear with the last Inuit generation to have seen the whalers. Illumina...
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155,86 zł |
Images of Justice: Volume 16
ISBN: 9780773534155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In a display case at the entrance to the Yellowknife courthouse are a collection of fourteen Inuit carvings that represent landmark cases in the legal history of Northwest Territories. This title tells the stories behind the carvings and provides insights into the situations that developed as the Inuit came in contact with Canada's justice system.
In a display case at the entrance to the Yellowknife courthouse are a collection of fourteen Inuit carvings that represent landmark cases in the legal...
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Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780773525726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is an illustrated oral biography created from recorded interviews by Dorothy Harley Eber in 1970. In these interviews, and through her drawings and prints, Pitseolak makes what Inuit call the old way come alive, reflecting on life on the land, its pleasure and trials. Her story later became an NFB animated documentary. This second edition, appearing more than 30 years after the first, contains additional drawings and prints by Pitseolak Ashoona and a new introduction by Eber that provides more information about the artist and the circumstances under which her groundbreaking oral...
This is an illustrated oral biography created from recorded interviews by Dorothy Harley Eber in 1970. In these interviews, and through her drawings a...
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155,86 zł |
Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers
ISBN: 9781442611030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In Encounters on the Passage, present day Inuit tell the stories that have been passed down from their ancestors of the first... Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: ... |
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129,87 zł |
Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life
ISBN: 9780773525658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is an illustrated oral biography created from recorded interviews by Dorothy Harley Eber in 1970. In these interviews, and through her drawings and prints, Pitseolak makes what Inuit call the old way come alive, reflecting on life on the land, its pleasure and trials. Her story later became an NFB animated documentary. This second edition, appearing more than 30 years after the first, contains additional drawings and prints by Pitseolak Ashoona and a new introduction by Eber that provides more information about the artist and the circumstances under which her groundbreaking oral...
This is an illustrated oral biography created from recorded interviews by Dorothy Harley Eber in 1970. In these interviews, and through her drawings a...
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493,71 zł |
People from Our Side: A Life Story with Photographs and Oral Biography
ISBN: 9780773509962 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Peter Pitseolak, the first native Baffin Island photographer, was born in the eastern Canadian Arctic in 1902. As a child he lived the nomadic camp life his ancestors had known, but during his lifetime missionaries, fur traders, law, government, schools, and alcohol came to Baffin Island. Peter Pitseolak's account of his life in People from Our Side shows how these developments changed the Inuit existence forever.
Peter Pitseolak, the first native Baffin Island photographer, was born in the eastern Canadian Arctic in 1902. As a child he lived the nomadic camp li...
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535,29 zł |