Nuligak (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Autobiography of Nuligak [1895-1966] - a member of the Kitigariukmeut tribe of Canadian Eskimos [Inuit]. Translated by Maurice Metayer. 208 pages illustrations, map (on endpapers). OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 317928927. Interior of the book is bright, clean and unmarked - except for a small, light ink note to the front endpaper, top margin, 'Fort Smith, N.W.T. Binding is tight and square. No wear to the bright, clean white cloth with black ink titles. The unclipped dustjacket is clean but shows some top edge wear - chips and light creasing. Small repairs to the inside of the dj with acid-free tape. We show no pre-determined postal rates from our location due to the huge variety of weights, dimensions and destinations on our orders. Each order is determined individually - at cost - using the least costly options. Online sites are unable to post correct rates because systems can not calculate weights, dimensions or speed. Please email for images and/or postal rates to your destination, at our cost. No obligation to purchase at any rate. Ekootak (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Ekootak (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Ekootak (illustrator).

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Spine creased, binding tight. Foxing to top of page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edited and translated from the Eskimo by Maurice Metayer. First edition. Very good in a very good (shelf worn) dust jacket. Illustrated by Ekootak (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. I, Nuligak; translated from the Eskimo by Maurice Metayer; illustrations by Ekootak; Peter Martin Associates, Toronto, 1966. From the blurb I, Nuligak will tell you a story. It is the story of what has happened to me in my life, all my adventures, many of them forever graven in my memory. These are the words that begin one of the most remarkable books of this or any other year the autobiography of Nuligak, a member of the Kitigariukmeut tribe of Canadian Eskimos. In Nuligak's life is compressed the transition from a Neolithic culture to our modern society. Nuligak began his life using tools of stone and bone virtually identical to those used by our own ancestors ten thousand years ago. And in his twilight years he passed his time writing his autobiography on a typewriter. Nuligak was born in 1895 in the Mackenzie Delta. He died, full of years and experience, in 1966 in a hospital in Edmonton. His story the story of his life in a translation faithful to his original Eskimo manuscript is one of contrasts. Incredible physical hardship and privation in the harsh Arctic environment mixed with gaiety and laughter in the human warmth of the Eskimo community. There have been and will continue to be a great many books written about the Eskimo. But there is only one written by an Eskimo. And there will never be another like it. The world of Nuligak's youth is gone forever from the Canadian arctic. Victor Ekootak was a graphic artist based in Ulukhaktok, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, NT. He died in 1966. His full-page illustrations are a wonderful compliment to the text. The Arctic map endpapers includes an Eskimo translation of English place names. This book, 208 pages, is in fine condition, in a very-good dust jacket that is now in a protective mylar wrap. A very scarce book.…