| The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic Contributor(s): Maurice, Edward Beauclerk (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618773584 ISBN-13: 9780618773589 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: At 16, Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where he immersed himself in the Inuit people's culture and way of life. Through deadly epidemics and the struggle to survive, the young man from England came of age. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007281927 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.34" W x 8.08" (0.85 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Cultural Region - Canadian - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no communication with the outside world and only one ship arrived each year. But he was not alone. The Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and became completely immersed in their culture, earning the name Issumatak, meaning "he who thinks." In The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Edward Beauclerk Maurice relates his story of coming of age in the Arctic and transports the reader to a time and a way of life now lost forever. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maurice, Edward Beauclerk: - EDWARD BEAUCLERK MAURICE, after serving in the New Zealand navy during World War II, became a bookseller in an English village and rarely traveled again. He died in 2003, as this book was being readied for publication. |