What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile

Audlaluk, Larry

ISBN 10: 177227237X / ISBN 13: 9781772272376

Published by Inhabit Media, 2020

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Stiff clean book in crisp covers. Unmarked but for inscription (note) signed by Audlaluk on the half-title page ; 6 X 1 X 9 inches; 280 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 67071

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile
• Publisher: Inhabit Media
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 177227237X
• ISBN 13: 9781772272376
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography/Memoir

About this title

Synopsis

Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.They were promised a land of plenty. They were given an inhospitable polar desert.

Larry tells of loss, illness, and his family’s struggle to survive, juxtaposed with excerpts from official reports that conveyed the relocatees’ plight as a successful experiment. With refreshing candour and an unbreakable sense of humour, Larry leads the reader through his life as a High Arctic Exile―through broken promises, a decades-long fight to return home, and a life between two worlds as southern culture begins to encroach on Inuit traditions.

About the Author

Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a small camp west of Inukjuak in northern Quebec. He was relocated to the High Arctic with his family when he was two years old. Larry was inducted into the Order of Canada for his years working as an ambassador for the people of Grise Fiord, Canada's northernmost civilian settlement, and is the community's longest-living resident.