Call of the North: An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole

by Jean Malaurie

The first Frenchman to reach the North Pole by dog sled looks back on four decades of tumultuous change experienced by the Inuit people in the wake of their contacts with outsiders.

351 pages, Hardcover

First published December 7, 2001

About the author

Jean Malaurie was a French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, physicist, and writer. He and Kutsikitsoq, an Inuk, were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on 29 May 1951.

Jean Malaurie était un anthropologue culturel, explorateur, géographe, physicien et écrivain français. Lui et Kutsikitsoq, un Inuk, furent les deux premiers hommes à atteindre le pôle géomagnétique Nord le 29 mai 1951.