Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North

by Jean Malaurie

An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples. Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope.

Heavily illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artifacts, and drawings, the book gives the readers the impression of having an entire museum of North Pole history in their hands. 650 color and black-and-white photographs

Genres: Nonfiction, History

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

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.

Reviews

[Lili VI · Rating 3 out of 5]

Passionnant mais beaucoup trop difficile à lire.

[mlle-cassis · Rating 5 out of 5]

C'est long, c'est dru, c'est lourd (400p A4 en papier glacé, t'imagines?), mais qu'est-ce que ça vaut la peine. Un très beau cadeau de Noël que j'aurai mis plus de 10 ans à ouvrir. Il ne me reste plus qu'à lire "Les derniers rois de Thulé". Pour commencer.

(une petite présentation ici http://www.bibliomonde.com/livre/ulti...)