Publication

1980 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

70,500 words, Guess

Page Count

282 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100226571793
  • ISBN-139780226571799
  • Goodreads3692021
  • LibraryThing995702
  • Library of Congress Control Number80011091
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC970.004/97
  • LCCE99.E7 N44
  • LCCE99.E7

Description

Fiction based on a collage of what is real. Series of stories which follow a group of Eskimo hunters and their families through the cycle of an arctic year. Based on the author's stay of fourteen months among the Eskimos of Wainwright, Alaska.

First Sentence

IT WAS NEAR DAWN, a few days past the New Year.

Excerpt

IT WAS NEAR DAWN, a few days past the New Year.

Subjects

Places

People

Richard K. Nelson

Other Editions

  • Shadow of the hunterUniversity of Chicago Press1980

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