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Hardcover:
9780152059248 | 1 edition (Harcourt Childrens Books, October 1, 2006), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Drawn from the author's journey to the Canadian Arctic in 1946, this volume collects four Inuit folktales that capture the landscape of the Arctic and the culture of its people.
Paperback:
9780152059309 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 2006), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Drawn from the author's journey to the Canadian Arctic in 1946, this volume collects four Inuit folktales that capture the landscape of the Arctic and the culture of its people.
Hardcover:
9780771042768 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: For more than thirty years James Houston has been flying to Vancouver, then taking a little plane north and west to the airport at Sandspit on the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Paperback:
9780771042430 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, April 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: For more than thirty years James Houston has been flying to Vancouver, then taking a little plane north and west to the airport at Sandspit on the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Hardcover:
9781552631041 | Key Porter Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Provides photographs of and texts discussing pieces of Inuit artwork from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization as well as from the collection of James Houston, organized by geographic area.
Hardcover:
9780771042072 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, December 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Two whaling ship captains, a brash Yankee and a young Newfoundlander, clash during their year-long stay among the Inuit of Baffin Island hunting for whales
Paperback:
9780771042096 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Two whaling ship captains, a brash Yankee and a young Newfoundlander, clash during their year-long stay among the Inuit of Baffin Island hunting for whales
Hardcover:
9780887764592 | Ill edition (Tundra Books, October 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Canadian author and artist describes how he was invited to design glass sculptures for Steuben Glass, and how his experiences with glass helped to reawaken his appreciation for the beauty of the Frozen North
Hardcover:
9780708907689 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In the black hours of a wintry night Inuit hunters fight their way through a storm to the camp of the administrator of Baffin Island.
9780151847556 | Harcourt, January 1, 1980, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Abandoned as a youth by his mother, an Eskimo man learns of the art of shamanism from the woman who adopts him, confronts a white stranger in the remote Canadian wilderness, and faces a final disgrace
Paperback:
9780771042065 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, March 1, 1997, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Book by James Houston
9780380569113 | Avon Books, December 1, 1981, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: Abandoned as a youth by his mother, an Eskimo man learns of the art of shamanism from the woman who adopts him, confronts a white stranger in the remote Canadian wilderness, and faces a final disgrace
Paperback:
9781575660448 | Reprint edition (Kensington Pub Corp, June 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Unjustly banished from Scotland, William Stewart and Thana, a beautiful Dene Indian girl, journey deep into the heart of the unexplored sub-Arctic wilderness, in a story of love and survival set in eighteenth-century Canada.
9780821735053 | Reprint edition (Kensington Pub Corp, January 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Young William Stewart and Thana, a beautiful Dene Indian woman, journey deep into the heart of the unexplored sub-Arctic wilderness, in a story of survival and love set in eighteenth-century Canada
Hardcover:
9780395788905 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An insider's look at life among the Inuit describes his years of living among the native peoples of the Canadian Arctic, sharing anecdotes about his adventures, his family, his interest in Inuit art, and the impact of the Inuit on his later life
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Hardcover:
9780788157974 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1995, cover price $22.00
Paperback:
9780140365306 | Reprint edition (Puffin, February 1, 1994), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture
School and Library:
9780689505638 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture.
Reinforced:
9780606058162 | Demco Media, February 1, 1994, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture
Hardcover:
9780151353002 | Harcourt, January 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Sarah Wells is stolen from a New Hampshire farm by a raiding party of Abnaki Indians during the French and Indian Wars, and, after an excruciating march into Canada, she faces death by torture or life in slavery
Paperback:
9780156347242 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 1, 1993), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Sarah Wells is stolen from a New Hampshire farm by a raiding party of Abnaki Indians during the French and Indian Wars, and, after an excruciating march into Canada, she faces death by torture or life in slavery
Hardcover:
9780771042836 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, October 1, 1992, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture.
Paperback:
9780689716126 | 2 edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 31, 1992), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic
9780771042447 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, August 1, 1986, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Frozen Fire - A Tale Of Courage
Reinforced:
9780606003049 | Demco Media, October 1, 1992, cover price $13.37 | About this edition: Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic
Hardcover:
9780689504112 | Atheneum, October 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Kungo, a young Inuit, seeks to prevent a bloody feud when his people and a rival Indian tribe find themselves in competition for dwindling food supplies
Paperback:
9780140360783 | Reprint edition (Puffin, June 1, 1992), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Kungo, a young Inuit, seeks to prevent a bloody feud when his people and a rival Indian tribe find themselves in competition for dwindling food supplies
Long Claws, a huge grizzly bear, threatens the lives of Pitohok and his sister, Upik, during their first solitary search for food following their father's death
Paperback:
9780140545227 | Reprint edition (Puffin, June 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Followed by a huge grizzly bear, an Eskimo brother and sister make a perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra to bring back a frozen caribou to their hungry family.
School and Library:
9780689502064 | Atheneum, August 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Followed by a huge grizzly bear, an Eskimo brother and sister make a perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra to bring back a frozen caribou to their hungry family.
Reinforced:
9780606017176 | Demco Media, June 1, 1992, cover price $11.20 | About this edition: Followed by a huge grizzly bear, an Eskimo brother and sister make a perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra to bring back a frozen caribou to their hungry family.
Hardcover:
9780844667638 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1992, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Two young boys, who have been sent into the Canadian interior to set up a fur-collecting station, are befriended by a Naskapi Indian family.
9780689501517 | Atheneum, October 1, 1979, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Two young boys, who have been sent into the Canadian interior to set up a fur-collecting station, are befriended by a Naskapi Indian family.
Paperback:
9780140360936 | Reprint edition (Puffin, June 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Two young boys, who have been sent into the Canadian interior to set up a fur-collecting station, are befriended by a Naskapi Indian family
Paperback:
9780152017316 | Reissue edition (Sandpiper, November 1, 1990), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Akavak and his grandfather make an exciting journey to see the old man's brother once more before his death
Paperback:
9780152877484 | Reissue edition (Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1990), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A young Eskimo hunter fights for survival while stranded on an isolated and desolate island
Hardcover:
9780517577325 | Crown Pub, April 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Young William Stewart and Thana, a beautiful Dene Indian woman, journey deep into the heart of the unexplored sub-Arctic wilderness, in a story of survival and love set in eighteenth-century Canada
Hardcover:
9780844661230 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $15.25 | About this edition: In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers.
Paperback:
9780156962568, titled "The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga" | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, April 1, 1989), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: After becoming separated from their whaling party three New Englanders are adopted and nursed back to health by an Eskimo village
Paperback:
9780771042546 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 1986, cover price $5.99
Paperback:
9780771042485 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 1986, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: While searching for a gold mother lode, the Morgans and their two friends come upon a pool covered with iridescent oil.
Two boys spending a summer at a research station in the Arctic to study the migration of whales learn deep sea diving and encounter dangerous adventure.
School and Library:
9780689503337 | Atheneum, September 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Matthew Morgan and Kayak, a young Inuit, help Dr.
Hardcover:
9780151271177 | Harcourt, March 1, 1983, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Actual historical events form the basis of a fictionalized account of the experiences of two surviving white men as, first, slaves of the Eagle clan of the Nootkan and, later, members of the clan
School and Library:
9780689502231 | Atheneum, March 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Matthew Morgan and his Inuit friend, Kayak, discover gold nuggets on Baffin Island and, searching for the mother lode, journey to mysterious, winter-locked Prince Charles Island, where they find a pool of oil
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