The Last And First Eskimos
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A work of compassionate documentary nonfiction, The Last and First Eskimos chronicles the lives of the Inuit people of the Arctic as they navigate the collision between their ancient traditions and the encroaching forces of modern American society. Renowned child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles presents the human stories behind this cultural transformation through intimate interviews and striking photographs, giving voice to a community caught between two worlds. With the same empathetic authority that defined his landmark Children of Crisis series, Coles illustrates how indigenous identity, spirituality, and daily life are reshaped — and sometimes fractured — by outside pressures including government policy, education, and economic change. The result is a deeply humane portrait, both urgent and elegiac, that argues for the dignity and resilience of a people too often rendered invisible by the broader sweep of history.
Author: Robert Coles
Format: Hardback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A work of compassionate documentary nonfiction, The Last and First Eskimos chronicles the lives of the Inuit people of the Arctic as they navigate the collision between their ancient traditions and the encroaching forces of modern American society. Renowned child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles presents the human stories behind this cultural transformation through intimate interviews and striking photographs, giving voice to a community caught between two worlds. With the same empathetic authority that defined his landmark Children of Crisis series, Coles illustrates how indigenous identity, spirituality, and daily life are reshaped — and sometimes fractured — by outside pressures including government policy, education, and economic change. The result is a deeply humane portrait, both urgent and elegiac, that argues for the dignity and resilience of a people too often rendered invisible by the broader sweep of history.