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Incredible Eskimo

Life Among the Barren Land Eskimo

by (author) Raymond DeCoccola & Paul King

Publisher
Hancock House
Initial publish date
Jan 1986
Category
Cultural, Native American Studies, Cultural Heritage
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888391896
    Publish Date
    Jan 1986
    List Price
    $39.95

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Description

The Book is a story of survival and hope in the Central Canadian Arctic. Father Raymond's first hand accounts of survival and life with the Eskimo. For twelve arduous but captivating years, Raymond de Coccola was, for all intents and purposes, a Barren Land Eskimo. Trained as an Oblate missionary, he ministered to the people of the Central Canadian Arctic while sharing their epic struggle to survive in this land of ice and snow. It is an unforgettable portrait of adventure, of murder, of sexual mores. It is Father Raymond's touching first-person revelation of birth and of death, or patience and of fatalism; and it is a staggering account of his people's tragedy and loss.

About the authors

Raymond DeCoccola's profile page

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

Paul King's profile page