"WE ARE BEING HAVE STAYED Too PUNISHED BECAUSE LONG IN ONE PLACE, PITA. TES, LIFE Is A JOURNEY/ As MY WISE FRIEND ODARK TOLD ME. FOR AN ENTERPRISE OF QUITE DIFFERENT SCOPE A BEAUTY CONTEST TO ELECT Miss UNIVERSE/' Alfred Nobel had otherĬROSS-EXAMINED FOR HOURS, I WAS BEATEN, SLAPPED ACROSS THE FACE WITH WET TOWELS, AND MY ARTIFICIAL LEG WAS "Iįield mattresses. People have a habit of disappearing.įORCES BUT THERE WERE OTHER WAYS OF FIGHTING THE ENEMY/' Lapland. Trotskyites are saboteurs and vice versa. 'THE WAVE RECEDED, THE BARGE SANK ONCE MORE, AND WE STARED AT THE MONSTROUS SIGHT: HE WAS STILL CLINGING TO THE LADDER, BUT THE LOWER PART OF THE BODY WASĪ large and dirty steamer. Where's the pilot? They know their Shakespeare in Yakutsk. THE SOVIET WAY!' HE 306Ģnd, 3rd, and 4th class passengers is simply not done. "ADMIRAL BEGUITCHEFF LOOKED AT ME WITH A SUPERIOR SMILE. ONE THAT CLAIMED MY INTEREST WAS A CAM"IĬONTENTS PAIGN TO STOP THE CRUEL TREATMENT OF GEESE." Clouds darken over Germany. Llamas tight spot and a narrow escape.ĬOULD NEVER KEEP OUT OF CAUSES. IN THE VICTIMS' BEHEADING." Flight to Latin America. New presidentl CONFESSED AT ONCE, EXPLAINING Heil Hitlerl "Will Rogers," he said, "Who's he?" Brown shadows over Europe. "HITLER'S JEALOUSY WAS NONE OFĪND IF THE NEWSPAPERS WANTED A PICTURE THEY HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ME OR THE NAZI." "HELP! FREUCHEN Is ATTACKING ME!"Īfter twenty-six years in the Arctic enter fear. Writer? Expert? Villain? An M-G-M expedition to the Arctic. "HEAVENS, Nol WE'LL JUST SHOW HIM THE SAME THING TOMORROW, THAT'S THE WAY Do IT HERE!"Ĭontract and the treatment. Peg-legging it to Green-Ī message to Hoover. "I DID NOT MANAGE TO LEAVE RUSSIA WITHOUT GETTING ARRESTED."Ĭongress talks in Leningrad. Marriage certificate? No booze, you're shot at farming.
"EVERYBODY HAD HEARD THAT MY BODY HAD BEEN WASHED ASHORE SOMEWHERE IN THE 201ĪRCTIC," Magdalene. "I FELT THE OLD MAN WITH THE SCYTHE COMING CLOSER, AND SOMETIMES WE SEEMED TO HAVE SWITCHED ROLES." Cutting ice-floe. THE HOLE WAS Too SMALL TO LET ME THROUGH MY BEARD, FROZEN TO THE RUNNERS OF THE SLED, WOULD NOT LET ME RETIRE INTO MY GRAVE AGAIN." GIVEN CAUSE FOR SURPRISE THAT ONE SINGLE MAN HAS BEEN PLACED HERE TO THINK AND PLAN FOR ALL OF His SUBJECTS, WHEN HE HAS No MORE SENSE THAN TO ASK FOR AN OPINION TO BE FORMED AFTER ONE DAY!" "THE BEGINNING OF A TERRIBLE WINTER, THE WORST, THE LONGEST, THE HUNGRIEST WINTER I HAVE EVER SPENT IN GREENLAND." It's "ARE You PETER FREUCHEN? OH, THANK GOODNESS, WE ARE SAVED AT LAST."īroken arm and a wet sealskin. Trapping a school of four hundred narwhales. "ONCE IN THULE, WE MADE READY AT ONCE TO SET OUT ON ONE OF THE STRANGEST EXPEDITIONS EVER UNDERTAKEN IN THE ARCTIC/' The "Danification" of Naravana. Life among the happiest people in the world.
"DURING THESE MONTHS MY ESKIMO FRIENDS SEEMED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT MY STATUS AS A SINGLE MAN/'įears about a Scottish whaler's crew and Thule womanhood. Unsuccessful attempt to cross the Greenland Ice Cap. "ACCORDING TO ESKIMO CUSTOM WE REMAINED ON OUR SLEDS WITH OUR BACKS TOWARD SHORE A SIGN THAT OUR TRIP HAD ENDED IN TRAGEDY." ULTIMA THULE, WHICH MEANS, OF COURSE, NORTH OF EVERYWHERE AND EVERYBODY." viiĬONTENTS Founding a trading post in Northernmost Greenland strange social, marital and moral codes. Beginning of a lifelong association with the Daily, PolitfJcen. Cook's claim to have discovered the North Pole. MET AND BECAME CLOSELY ATTACHED TO MAN WHO CAME TO MEAN MORE TO ME THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN MY WHOLE LIFE "I Īlone, where night and day are indistinguishable. TEENTH, MYLIUS-ERICHSEN AND, FINALLY, BRONLUND. Mischance, mishaps, misadventures and misfor.
Greenland expedition under Mylius-Erichsen. "TWENTY YEARS OLD, I WAS GOING TO SPEND A WINTER IN THE ARCTIC." Greenland, where Eskimo can whet the appetite and dampen the spirit. "WHAT THE DEVIL HAVE You BEEN DOING AND WHO GAVE You PERMISSION TO SPEND THE NIGHT ASHORE?" "SEE WHAT THE CHILDREN ARE DOING, AND TELL THEM NOT TO."Įarly "scientific" experiments involving a teacher's Reminiscing about old times with proud Odark, last surviving Eskimo member of Peary's North Pole Expedition. Do You REMEMWERE You WHEN BER THE HOUSE You BUILT IN THULE, PITA? THE FIRST HOUSE EVER BUILT HERE. Memory of my mother, one who -L of a long line of seafarers, that an at me age early taught to is no get way staying at home Published simultaneously in Canada by the Copp Clark Company, Ltd. 8 West 40th Street, New York 18.Ĭopyright 1953, by Peter Freuchen Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved.Īny form without permission in writing from the publisher. Now, at last, he has foundįantastic, experiis, packed with ences, taut with drama, sparkling with earthy humor and anecdotes. A Viking, an illustrious explorer, fearless and irrepressible wanderer into the unknown.
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