Chessler Books
Rock Climbing - Mountaineering - Exploration
New - Used - Collectible - Signed
Chessler Books Accepts PAYPAL Chessler Books Accepts VISA Chessler Books Accepts MASTERCARD Chessler Books Accepts DISCOVER CARD Chessler Books Accepts AMERICAN EXPRESS
All Orders Shipped via United States Postal Service   Chessler Books Ships Via USPS
Author:
Title:
Keyword:
Item #:
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M Mc N O P Q
R S T U V W X Y Z
Item #: PL4485-932
UNDER POLARIS: AN ARCTIC QUEST Tahoe Talbot Washburn 1999 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine
By Washburn, Tahoe Talbot
Price: $19.99

List Price: $35.00
You Save $15.01 (43%)



Add to wish list


Detailed Product Description
WA, Univ WA Press, 1999, 1st ed. 249 pages, many b/w photos, maps. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine. 

Washburn and her husband lived in the Arctic, living with Inuit families and learning their way of life. The author and her husband first visited the Arctic in 1938. The journals she kept over the next three years form the basis for this book. The Washburns traveled the coastal areas of Victoria and King William Islands by boat and dog team, and flew over them in single engine planes. Their companions included native Inuit, Hudson's Bay Company employees, Canadian government workers, and Catholic and Anglican missionaries. 

Washburn made a concerted effort to learn the survival skills of the Inuit women and to understand their lives. The process of making caribou skin clothing for herself and her husband is described with great clarity and humor. Though not sharing their language, she sat with the women while they worked, quietly imitating their actions as they scraped and softened the skins and sewed the pieces with skilled hands. She tells of their patience and gentle amusement as they helped her, their curiosity about her way of life, and their generosity in sharing meager resources.



Other Items You Might Like

  • Similar Items Available
  • Items From This Author
  • Items From This Category
ALL THAT GLITTERS: A CLIMBER'S JOURNEY THROUGH ADDICITON AND DEPRESSION Margo Talbot 2011 1st ed Paperback Fine SIGNED by Margot Talbot
By: Talbot, Margo
Price $4.95 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $15.05 (75%)
- Item # BK2573A-583
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
BRADFORD WASHBURN: MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHY Bradford Washburn 1999 Rare 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine [Not Signed]
By: Washburn, Bradford, Antony Decaneas
Price $250.00
- Item # BK1642-941p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MOUNT McKINLEY: THE CONQUEST OF DENALI 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Bradford Washburn and David Roberts
By: Washburn, Bradford and David Roberts
Price $275.00
- Item # BK1645E-935p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MOUNT McKINLEY: THE CONQUEST OF DENALI 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Bradford and Barbara Washburn and INSCRIBED David Roberts
By: Washburn, Bradford and David Roberts
Price $250.00 ~ Regular $300.00, You Save $50.00 (17%)
- Item # BK1645B-941p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MOUNT McKINLEY: THE CONQUEST OF DENALI 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ New SIGNED by Bradford Washburn
By: Washburn, Bradford and David Roberts
Price $250.00 ~ Regular $350.00, You Save $100.00 (29%)
- Item # BK1645A-941p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ESCAPE FROM LUCANIA David Roberts 2002 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available [Not Signed]
By: Roberts, David
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $23.00, You Save $13.01 (57%)
- Item # BK1854-95738
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ESCAPE FROM LUCANIA 2002 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Fine INSCRIBED by David Roberts
By: Roberts, David
Price $45.00 ~ Regular $159.95, You Save $114.95 (72%)
- Item # BK1854F-158
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MOUNT McKINLEY: THE CONQUEST OF DENALI Bradford Washburn 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ NF-Fine Multiple Copies Available [Not Signed]
By: Washburn, Bradford and David Roberts
Price $34.99 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $15.01 (30%)
- Item # BK1645D-9415p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ON HIGH: THE ADVENTURES OF LEGENDARY MOUNTAINEER BRADFORD WASHBURN Washburn and Smith 2002 1st ed Hardcover Fine 2 Copies Available
By: Washburn, Bradford and Donald Smith
Price $19.95 ~ Regular $40.00, You Save $20.05 (50%)
- Item # BK1858-9412p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE LAST OF HIS KIND: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BRADFORD WASHBURN, AMERICA'S BOLDEST MOUNTAINEER David Roberts 2009 1st ed New Hardcover 3 Copies Available
By: Roberts, David
Price $15.99 ~ Regular $25.99, You Save $10.00 (38%)
- Item # BK2431-9473
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author.


SOUTH COL: ONE MAN'S ADVENTURES ON THE ASCENT OF EVEREST Wilfrid Noyce 1955 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Fine 2 copies available
By: Noyce, Wilfrid
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $49.95, You Save $39.96 (80%)
- Item # OP356B-9622
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
HERMANN BUHL KOMPROMISLOS NACH OBEN [HERMANN BUHL CLIMBING WITHOUT COMPROMISE] 1997 1st edition DJ New SIGNED by Reinhold Messner Horst Hofler and Kurt Diemberger
By: Messner, Reinhold and Horst Hofler
Price $45.00 ~ Regular $125.00, You Save $80.00 (64%)
- Item # OP7287AB-950
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
AN AFTERCLAP OF FATE: MALLORY ON EVEREST Charles Lind 2006 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ New Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize
By: Lind, Charles
Price $150.00
- Item # BK2167-932
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ADVENTURES OF AN ALPINE GUIDE Christian Klucker 1932 1st ed Hardcover No DJ Near Fine
By: Klucker, Christian
Price $35.00 ~ Regular $60.00, You Save $25.00 (42%)
- Item # OP1204D-930
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
LIVING WITH CANNIBALS AND OTHER WOMEN'S ADVENTURES Michaele Slung 2000 1st ed New Hardcover 2 Copies Available
By: Slung, Michele. Foreword by Reeve Lindbergh
Price $19.99
- Item # BK4462-9582
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
EVEREST THE TESTING PLACE John West 1985 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available
By: West, John
Price $5.99 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $29.01 (83%)
- Item # OP392-9383
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
GEORGE MALLORY BIOGRAPHY David Robertson 1969 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine 2 Copies Available
By: Robertson, David
Price $125.00 ~ Regular $300.00, You Save $175.00 (58%)
- Item # OP362A-9472
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CONQUISTADORS OF THE USELESS: FROM THE ALPS TO ANNAPURNA Lionel Terray 1963 2nd imp Hardcover DJ/No DJ Very Good 2 Copies Available
By: Terray, Lionel
Price $39.95 ~ Regular $65.00, You Save $25.05 (39%)
- Item # OP893G-9482
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
LE ROI DES MONTAGNES [The King of the Mountains] Edmond About 1903 Hardcover Near Fine
By: About, Edmond, Adapted and Edited by Ernest Weekley
Price $30.00 ~ Regular $250.00, You Save $220.00 (88%)
- Item # OP4653-954
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
POLAR ATTACK, FROM CANADA TO THE NORTH POLE AND BACK Weber and Malakhov 1996 1st ed Hardcover Fine
By: Weber, Richard and Mikhail Malakhov
Price $12.50 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $17.50 (58%)
- Item # PL222-960
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart