Author: Anonymous
Title: Greenland&Apos;S Icy Mountains: Peeps at the Eskimos, Their Homes and Habits, with the Story of How the Gospel Was Carried to Them.
Description: Kilmarnock, John Ritchie, c1900. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated children's ethnographic study of the life of the Eskimo, and the introduction of Christianity to Greenland. A curious turn of the century account - aimed at children and relayed in a narrative style - of the means by which missionaries introduced Christianity to the native population of Greenland.Also discussing the homes and habits of the Eskimo, the narrative begins on a snowy Christmas eve, and discusses the building of igloos, the harpooning of wales, and the role of the family. Illustrated throughout, and with a photographic frontispiece.Undated; dated c1900 via WorldCat. With a twenty-four page publisher's catalogue to the rear, and the prize bookplate of a Birmingham Sunday School to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with marks to boards. Front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Prize bookplate to front free endpaper, blind stamp to rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd spot or mark. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: eskimo innuit evangelical missionary innuit Not Stated


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