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Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo by Harper, Ken

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Item specifics

Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
ISBN
9780743410052

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Washington Square Press
ISBN-10
074341005X
ISBN-13
9780743410052
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038642769

Product Key Features

Book Title
Give Me My Father's Body : the Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Polar Regions, Indigenous Studies, General, Historical
Publication Year
2001
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Kenn Harper
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
USA TodayFascinating and sad...well-researched and simply told. Give Me My Father's Body is not only about cultural misunderstanding and scientific arrogance, but one man's life as an outsider and his search for a place to call home., USA TodayFascinating and sad...well-researched and simply told.Give Me My Father's Bodyis not only about cultural misunderstanding and scientific arrogance, but one man's life as an outsider and his search for a place to call home.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
998.2/0049712 B
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
In his search for the North Pole at the turn of the twentieth century,the renowned Robert E. Peary, long celebrated as an icon of modern exploration, used the Eskimos of northwestern Greenland as the human resources for his expeditions. Sailing aboard a ship calledHopein 1897, Peary entered New York harbor with six Eskimos as his cargo. Depositing them with the American Museum of Natural History as live "specimens" to be poked, measured, and observed by the paying public, Peary abruptly abandoned any responsibility for their care. Four of the Eskimos died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained, orphaned and adrift in a bewildering metropolis. His name was Minik. Here, a century after the fact, is his story.A searing true tale of extraordinary darkness told with intensity and vigilance,Give Me My Father's Bodyis Kenn Harper's absorbing, intricately documented account of ruthless imperialism in the name of science, of cruel deceptions and false burials, and of the short, strange, and tragic life of the boy known as the New York Eskimo.

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