Salamina

Name: Salamina
Price: 8.89 USD
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ISBN: 9780819566775

ISBN-10: 0819566772

ISBN-13: 9780819566775

Edition: 2003

Authors: Rockwell Kent, Scott Ferris

List price: $24.95

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First published in 1935, Salamina details artist and adventurer Rockwell Kent's second trip to Greenland. Salamina unfolds as a series of vivid vignettes, each illustrated with Kent's bold black and white drawings. Through his accounts of fishing trips and Christmas festivities, shared meals and budding friendships, Kent acquaints us with the Eskimo and Danish inhabitants of the small vibrant community of Igdlorssuit. Both the native people and the forbidding Arctic landscape held a special beauty for Kent, and he describes them with an artist's eye. Salamina is Kent's Eskimo housekeeper (kifak), who becomes a central figure in the book when she and her daughter come to share Kent's small…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 10/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.50" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English