Eskimo folk-tales . ual interest; a thoughtful book, provocatireof thought, with an individual attitude.—Glasgow Herald. THE SECOND DANISH PAMIREXPEDITION By Dr. OVE PAULSEN (Danish) Vol. I. Studies in the Vegetation of the Transcaspian Lowlands, 1912 .. .. II. Studies in the Vegetation of Pamir, 1920 7s. 6d. net These two volumes, issued originally in English by Gyldendal, Copenhagen (1912 and 1920respectively), can now be obtained from the London Branch. They provide a report of thebotanical results of the expedition, with chapters on the climate, structure, and geology of theseli
Eskimo folk-tales . ual interest; a thoughtful book, provocatireof thought, with an individual attitude.—Glasgow Herald. THE SECOND DANISH PAMIREXPEDITION By Dr. OVE PAULSEN (Danish) Vol. I. Studies in the Vegetation of the Transcaspian Lowlands, 1912 .. .. II. Studies in the Vegetation of Pamir, 1920 7s. 6d. net These two volumes, issued originally in English by Gyldendal, Copenhagen (1912 and 1920respectively), can now be obtained from the London Branch. They provide a report of thebotanical results of the expedition, with chapters on the climate, structure, and geology of theselittle-known regions, which will be of interest to botanists and explorers alike. Illustratedfrom photographs. JUN i - 1941 1 m. ESKIMO FOLK-TALES COLLECTED BT KNUD RASMUSSEN EDITED AND RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BT W. WORSTER fVITH ILLUSTRJTI0N5£r MJTirE £skJMO ARTISTS GYLDENDAL 11 BURLEIGH ST., COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. CHRISTIANIA 1921 A-^^^O^^^ ^^s t? INTRODUCTION THESE stories were collected in various parts of Greenland,taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers them-selves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or thestories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimoorigin ; his childhood was spent in Greenland, and to Greenland hereturned again and again, studying, exploring, crossing the desertof the inland ice, making unique collections of material, tangible andotherwise, from all parts of that vast and little-known land, and hisachievements on these various expeditions have gained for him muchhonour and the appreciation of many learned societies. But it is as an interpreter of native life, of the ways and
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