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Vilhjálmur Stefánsson

Born

in Gimli, Canada

November 03, 1879

Died

August 26, 1962

Genre

Polar Exploration, Memoir

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Vilhjálmur Stefánsson (1879-1962) was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 700 ratings · 72 reviews · 108 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Life With the Eskimo 4.04 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1913 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fat of the Land 4.13 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1956 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunters of the Great North 4.51 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1922 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1921 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic 3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1938 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not By Bread Alone 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1946 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discovery: The Autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1964 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions, vol. 2 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1921 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cancer: disease of civilization?: An anthropological and historical study 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The adventure of Wrangel Island really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1925 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (2 books)
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Quotes by Vilhjálmur Stefánsson (?)

“What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.”
― Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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“We have a weakness of not learning from the natives, but rather teaching them.”
― Vilhjálmur Stefánsson

tags: colonialism, inuit, natives, weakness, white-supremacy

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“it does not profit a man that he gain the whole world if he lose his own soul,”
― Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, My Life with the Eskimo

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