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ARCTIC ADVENTURE-Peter Freuchen-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Book about Eskimos, by a man who settled among them, married an Eskimo woman (TIME, Nov. 25). Book-of-the-Month Club choice for April...
ARCTIC ADVENTURE-Peter Freuchen- Farrar & Rinehart...
IVALU - Peter Freuchen - Furman...
Arctic Adventure. Peter Freuchen abandoned his career while still a medical student in Denmark, visited North Greenland in 1907, later established a trading post there. Arctic Adventure is principally his story of life with the natives, whose fantastic modesty and equally fantastic generosity delighted him. North Greenland Eskimos considered it impolite to mention their own names, always waited for someone else to identify them. When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat. They believed that human beings could be trusted in all relationships except the sexual, consequently could not understand ideas...
...years ago in Hollywood to be a cameraman, joined the Van Dyke expedition as guide, photographed so well that Van Dyke decided to make him the hero. Most of the whites in the cast are members of Van Dyke's technical crew. The fur-trader is Peter Freuchen, who wrote the book on which Eskimo is based. Van Dyke himself is a police inspector. When he came back to Hollywood last spring with 600,000 feet of film, Director Van Dyke brought along a dozen Eskimos for interior sequences. They endured Hollywood for six months, hurried North when their...