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The Breathing Hole

The Breathing Hole( )
Author: Murphy, Colleen
As told to: Arnatsiaq-Murphy, Siobhan
Translator: Tamalik McGrath, Janet
Introduction by: Harper, Kenn
ISBN:978-0-3691-0111-2
Publication Date:Nov 2020
Publisher:Playwrights Canada Press
Book Format:Ebook
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Book Description:

For over five hundred years, a polar bear named Angu'řuaq has been witness to history from a breathing hole in Nunavut: from his entry into an Inuit community in the sixteenth century, to an encounter with the Franklin Expedition in the mid-nineteenth century, to an oil-slicked struggle on a cruise ship in the twenty-first century.

Book Details
Pages:250
Author Biography
Murphy, Colleen (Author)
Kenn Harper has lived in the Arctic for over thirty years in Eskimo communities in the Baffin Region & in Qaanaaq, Greenland. He has worked as a teacher, development officer, historian, linguist, & businessman. He speaks Inuktitut, the Eskimo language of the eastern Canadian Arctic, & has written extensively on northern history & the Inuktitut language. He now lives in Iqaluit, capital of the new Arctic territory of Nunavut, & was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

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