Word: inukal
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...INUK (322 pp.)-Roger Bullard-Far-rar, Straus & Young...
...Immaculate, studied seven years for the priesthood, and at last got a mission station at Coppermine, an Eskimo settlement within the Arctic Circle in the Canadian northwest. For 15 years he roamed the Arctic, forming small congregations, studying Eskimo life and manners, gradually falling in love with the place. Inuk (Eskimo for "I am the man") is the record of his Arctic life, a superb account that blends the impersonal acuteness of an anthropologist with the loving warmth of a truly religious...