Artic | Greatest Adventurers https://www.greatestadventurers.com Free Public Domain PDF e-books about adventurers, explorers, sailors and mountaineers from all over the world – and exciting novels of adventure. Be inspired and learn how the world was discovered. Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:13:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.greatestadventurers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-logo-grøn-trans-mindre-32x32.png Artic | Greatest Adventurers https://www.greatestadventurers.com 32 32 The People of the Polar North by Knud Rasmussen https://www.greatestadventurers.com/people-of-the-polar-north-by-knud-rasmussen/ https://www.greatestadventurers.com/people-of-the-polar-north-by-knud-rasmussen/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:14:12 +0000 http://greatestadventurers.com/?p=23 The People of the Polar North is a work by the Danish adventurer Knud Rasmussen. He was born 7 June 1879 in Ilulissat in Greenland and explored huge parts of the Arctic by dog sledge. Rasmussen is most known for his ... Read more and download PDF

The post The People of the Polar North by Knud Rasmussen first appeared on Greatest Adventurers.]]> The People of the Polar North is a work by the Danish adventurer Knud Rasmussen. He was born 7 June 1879 in Ilulissat in Greenland and explored huge parts of the Arctic by dog sledge. Rasmussen is most known for his Thule-expeditions, the most important was the fifth Thule expedition 1921-1924 with the goal to explore the origin of the Inuit people.

The expedition took 16 months and led him to so far unknown regions and tribes in northern Canada. From the foreword:

“When I was a child I often used to hear an old Greenlandic woman tell how, far away North, at the end of the world, there lived a people who dress in bearskin and ate raw flesh.”

Knud Rasmussen was a close friend of Peter Freuchen and Roald Amundsen.

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