The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga
- ISBN-10
- 0151961158
- ISBN-13
- 9780151961153
- Category
- Fiction / Indigenous
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Author
- James Houston
Description
In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world.
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