Hunting with the Eskimos:: The Unique Record of a Sportsman's Year Among the Northernmost Tribe the Big Game Hunting, the Native Life, and the Bat
"Harry Whitney and Paul Rainey...killed 59 polar bears and an uncounted number of muskox and walrus." - Polar Bears: The Arctic's Fearless Great Wanderers (2011)
"The hunting exploits of...Harry Whitney, provided a wider public interest in, and knowledge of, Arctic wildlife and the excitement of hunting." - The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914 (2017)
"American sports hunter Harry Whitney...and his Inughuit guides had taken a number of muskoxen and polar bears." -Muskox Land (2001)
"Harry Whitney, a summer passenger on the Erik, who was ambitious to obtain musk-oxen and polar bears, asked permission to remain with my two men at Etah." -Robert E. Peary
How did adopting the Eskimo mode of life, sharing with the natives their privations and their dangers help big game hunter Harry Whitney successfully bag a record number of polar bears in the vast harshness of the Arctic?
In the 1910 Harry Whitney (1873 –1936) tells the story of his polar bear hunting adventures in his book titled "Hunting with the Eskimos." Whitney sailed to the Arctic regions in 1908 as Commander Peary's guest on the Roosevelt. With two friends bound on the same quest as himself Mr. Whitney reshipped on the Erik for the farthest point north that he could reach.
His desire was to hunt walrus, musk-ox and other large aquatic game, and polar bears if he were so fortunate as to come within reach of them. The trip was so successful that when the Erik reached the end of her voyage Mr. Whitney determined to remain among the ice fields until her return a year later. Every means was used to dissuade him, but he persisted, and the story of his life among the Eskimos and the thrilling adventures he experienced in his hunt for Arctic big game is all told in this book.
About the author:
Harry Whitney was born December 1, 1873 and died May 20, 1936. He was an American sportsman, adventurer, and author. He traveled to northern Greenland with Robert Peary in 1908, staying over the winter with the Inughuit at Etah and Annoatok. In the spring of 1909 Whitney found himself at the center of the controversy between Frederick Cook and Peary over who had reached the North Pole first. A year after his return, he published a book on the trip. He is sometimes confused with his contemporary Harry Payne Whitney, who was no relation.
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"The hunting exploits of...Harry Whitney, provided a wider public interest in, and knowledge of, Arctic wildlife and the excitement of hunting." - The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914 (2017)
"American sports hunter Harry Whitney...and his Inughuit guides had taken a number of muskoxen and polar bears." -Muskox Land (2001)
"Harry Whitney, a summer passenger on the Erik, who was ambitious to obtain musk-oxen and polar bears, asked permission to remain with my two men at Etah." -Robert E. Peary
How did adopting the Eskimo mode of life, sharing with the natives their privations and their dangers help big game hunter Harry Whitney successfully bag a record number of polar bears in the vast harshness of the Arctic?
In the 1910 Harry Whitney (1873 –1936) tells the story of his polar bear hunting adventures in his book titled "Hunting with the Eskimos." Whitney sailed to the Arctic regions in 1908 as Commander Peary's guest on the Roosevelt. With two friends bound on the same quest as himself Mr. Whitney reshipped on the Erik for the farthest point north that he could reach.
His desire was to hunt walrus, musk-ox and other large aquatic game, and polar bears if he were so fortunate as to come within reach of them. The trip was so successful that when the Erik reached the end of her voyage Mr. Whitney determined to remain among the ice fields until her return a year later. Every means was used to dissuade him, but he persisted, and the story of his life among the Eskimos and the thrilling adventures he experienced in his hunt for Arctic big game is all told in this book.
About the author:
Harry Whitney was born December 1, 1873 and died May 20, 1936. He was an American sportsman, adventurer, and author. He traveled to northern Greenland with Robert Peary in 1908, staying over the winter with the Inughuit at Etah and Annoatok. In the spring of 1909 Whitney found himself at the center of the controversy between Frederick Cook and Peary over who had reached the North Pole first. A year after his return, he published a book on the trip. He is sometimes confused with his contemporary Harry Payne Whitney, who was no relation.
Hunting with the Eskimos:: The Unique Record of a Sportsman's Year Among the Northernmost Tribe the Big Game Hunting, the Native Life, and the Bat
"Harry Whitney and Paul Rainey...killed 59 polar bears and an uncounted number of muskox and walrus." - Polar Bears: The Arctic's Fearless Great Wanderers (2011)
"The hunting exploits of...Harry Whitney, provided a wider public interest in, and knowledge of, Arctic wildlife and the excitement of hunting." - The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914 (2017)
"American sports hunter Harry Whitney...and his Inughuit guides had taken a number of muskoxen and polar bears." -Muskox Land (2001)
"Harry Whitney, a summer passenger on the Erik, who was ambitious to obtain musk-oxen and polar bears, asked permission to remain with my two men at Etah." -Robert E. Peary
How did adopting the Eskimo mode of life, sharing with the natives their privations and their dangers help big game hunter Harry Whitney successfully bag a record number of polar bears in the vast harshness of the Arctic?
In the 1910 Harry Whitney (1873 –1936) tells the story of his polar bear hunting adventures in his book titled "Hunting with the Eskimos." Whitney sailed to the Arctic regions in 1908 as Commander Peary's guest on the Roosevelt. With two friends bound on the same quest as himself Mr. Whitney reshipped on the Erik for the farthest point north that he could reach.
His desire was to hunt walrus, musk-ox and other large aquatic game, and polar bears if he were so fortunate as to come within reach of them. The trip was so successful that when the Erik reached the end of her voyage Mr. Whitney determined to remain among the ice fields until her return a year later. Every means was used to dissuade him, but he persisted, and the story of his life among the Eskimos and the thrilling adventures he experienced in his hunt for Arctic big game is all told in this book.
About the author:
Harry Whitney was born December 1, 1873 and died May 20, 1936. He was an American sportsman, adventurer, and author. He traveled to northern Greenland with Robert Peary in 1908, staying over the winter with the Inughuit at Etah and Annoatok. In the spring of 1909 Whitney found himself at the center of the controversy between Frederick Cook and Peary over who had reached the North Pole first. A year after his return, he published a book on the trip. He is sometimes confused with his contemporary Harry Payne Whitney, who was no relation.
"The hunting exploits of...Harry Whitney, provided a wider public interest in, and knowledge of, Arctic wildlife and the excitement of hunting." - The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914 (2017)
"American sports hunter Harry Whitney...and his Inughuit guides had taken a number of muskoxen and polar bears." -Muskox Land (2001)
"Harry Whitney, a summer passenger on the Erik, who was ambitious to obtain musk-oxen and polar bears, asked permission to remain with my two men at Etah." -Robert E. Peary
How did adopting the Eskimo mode of life, sharing with the natives their privations and their dangers help big game hunter Harry Whitney successfully bag a record number of polar bears in the vast harshness of the Arctic?
In the 1910 Harry Whitney (1873 –1936) tells the story of his polar bear hunting adventures in his book titled "Hunting with the Eskimos." Whitney sailed to the Arctic regions in 1908 as Commander Peary's guest on the Roosevelt. With two friends bound on the same quest as himself Mr. Whitney reshipped on the Erik for the farthest point north that he could reach.
His desire was to hunt walrus, musk-ox and other large aquatic game, and polar bears if he were so fortunate as to come within reach of them. The trip was so successful that when the Erik reached the end of her voyage Mr. Whitney determined to remain among the ice fields until her return a year later. Every means was used to dissuade him, but he persisted, and the story of his life among the Eskimos and the thrilling adventures he experienced in his hunt for Arctic big game is all told in this book.
About the author:
Harry Whitney was born December 1, 1873 and died May 20, 1936. He was an American sportsman, adventurer, and author. He traveled to northern Greenland with Robert Peary in 1908, staying over the winter with the Inughuit at Etah and Annoatok. In the spring of 1909 Whitney found himself at the center of the controversy between Frederick Cook and Peary over who had reached the North Pole first. A year after his return, he published a book on the trip. He is sometimes confused with his contemporary Harry Payne Whitney, who was no relation.
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| BN ID: | 2940186433347 |
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 07/17/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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