A missionary's amazing Arctic experiences are contextualized with contemporary understanding.

Originally published fifty years ago, this international bestseller is filled with real life 'first contact' adventures as Raymond de Coccola, a Corsican-born missionary and explorer, observed and recorded the way of life of the Krangmalit Eskimo, from 1937 to 1949.

It is now time to take a closer look at this classic portrait of cultures in collision, as a new introduction sets de Coccola's Arctic experiences in the context of contemporary understanding of missionary work and northern development.

'A tribute to our own belated growth and awareness.' - New York Times

'A classic memoir.' - B.C. World

'A remarkably insightful view into the daily life of the Eskimo in the Canadian Arctic... de Coccola has written much more than a memoir...' - New England Review of Books

RAYMOND DE COCCOLA (1912-1995) was born in Corsica in the village from which his ancient family takes its name. Educated in Corsica and at a Jesuit college in France's Haute Savoie (bordering on Switzerland), he chose to be trained as an Oblate missionary.

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PAUL KING, a graduate of the University of British Columbia, is an athlete, journalist, soldier, teacher, and weekly newspaper publisher and editor.

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