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Kabloona

By: Gontran de Poncins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Summary

Kabloona is a true story of a journey into the North. This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening.

In the summer of 1938, the Frenchman Gontran de Poncins traveled beyond the "Barren Lands" north of the Arctic Circle to Kind William Island, an island of 10,000 square miles. The entire population of the island consisted of 25 Eskimos, their primitive lives untouched by the civilization of the white man.

For 15 months Gontran de Poncins lived among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He is 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. But as de Poncins' 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.
©1941 Gontran de Poncins (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks
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loved this insight to a lost time

The things he saw and wrote about have rarely been witnessed by modern civilisation, he talks about them in such a matter of fact way, he was not to know that he was witnessing a dying culture. A fantastic insight to a lost time.

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Excellent

A spiritual journey indeed. A brief insight into the world of the Eskimo. Beautifully written and narrated.

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