MALAURIE, Jean. - Ultima thule. Explorers and natives in the Polar North. Translated from the French by Willard Wood and Anthony Roberts.

New York, London, W.W. Norton & Company, (2003). Folio. Boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous photographic illustrations (many in colours). 400 pp. 'Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony. This text is the story of European and American exploration in the polar north. It aims to bring to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples'.

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