This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others' wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. Indeed, most Europeans would be overwhelmed merely by the smells Poncins encountered in the igloos. But as de ...
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This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others' wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. Indeed, most Europeans would be overwhelmed merely by the smells Poncins encountered in the igloos. But as de Poncins's odyssey continues, he is transformed from Kabloona, the White Man, an uncomprehending outsider, to someone who finds himself living, for a few short months, as Inuk: a man, preeminently. He opens his eyes to the world around him, a harsh but beautiful world unlike any other, and allows himself to be fully immersed in its culture.
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Add this copy of Kabloona to cart. $6.50, very good condition, Sold by moonshower rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Middlebury, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Time-Life Books.
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Add this copy of Kabloona: Among the Inuit to cart. $12.48, very good condition, Sold by Half Price Books Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
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Add this copy of Kabloona to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1941 by Reynal.
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Very good(-) Illustrated, some color. Thick 8vo, tan & blue cloth (spine sunned and with a small stain on top edge of some pages). New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1941). A very good(-) solid copy.
Add this copy of Kabloona to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1941 by Reynal & Hitchcock.
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by the author, and with photographic plates. 339pp. Binding slightly loose, covers lightly tanned with corners rubbed and spine tanned, very good. An account of the author's travels to the Arctic, and the ways of the indigenous peoples he encountered.
Add this copy of Kabloona to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by A Turn of the Page Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fishers, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1941 by Reynal & Hitchcock.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Near Fine in a good + jacket. First edition as issued by the Book-Of-The-Month Club, with no price on the jacket. Jacket has a 1/2" x 2" chip on the top front cover. Illustrated by photos, drawings, plates.
Add this copy of Kabloona to cart. $44.00, very good condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES.
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Very good; Collectible. The hardcover only stated Reynal Edition from 1941. Other than a hint of rubbing to the cover edges, both the cover and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc. ---and the pages and binding are tight as a drum.
Add this copy of Kabloona: Along the Inuit to cart. $61.50, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2005 by Blackstone Audio Inc.
Add this copy of Kabloona to cart. $68.95, good condition, Sold by J.E. Miles, A Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from OCEANSIDE, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Time Life.
Add this copy of Kabloona to cart. $850.00, very good condition, Sold by McBlain Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hamden, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1941 by Reynal & Hitchcock.
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Very Good. Illustrations, some in color and all by Poncins, xii, 339p., plus 32 unnumbered pages of black and white photos with captions and some text beneath each photo. Original cloth backed in red leather. Original red slipcase. Lower front edge of box split along one side and the top is split along the short edge. Backstrip scuffed and also rubbed at ends. Internally sound and clean. No jacket. Copy No. 199 of the limited edition of 550 copies. The book is an account of Poncins' thoughts and experiences during 15 months in 1938-1939 spent in the Canadian Arctic, mostly among Inuit people living near King William Land in what is now known as Nunavut. A printed slip, not present here, had been laid in copies of the Limited Edition explaining that the book had not been not signed because Poncins, having "...joined the colors of his country [France], disappeared in the debacle of the French Republic following the fall of Paris." The missing slip promised that, "in the event of his survival and return to the United States, arrangements will be made upon request to his publishers...for him to sign this numbered copy of KABLOONA." In fact, Poncins had survived and this copy, and an unknown, but apparently modest, number of other copies of the limited edition, were signed by Poncins. The signature ("Gontran de Poncins") appears beneath the statement of limitation on the limitation page. All in all, an appealing SIGNED copy of an important book about the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit people.
