Book
Confessions of an igloo dweller : the story of the man who brought Inuit art to the outside world
Record details
- ISBN: 0771042868 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0771042728
- ISBN: 9780771042867 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 97807710427210
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Physical Description:
xiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: Trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
- Copyright: ©1995
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Douglas Gibson book." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Northward -- Inukjuak-1948 -- Companions -- The Walrus Hunt -- Sold Out -- Historical Move -- Great Whale River -- Dog Team to Povungnituk, 1950 -- A Stitch in Time -- Akulivik -- Igloo -- Moving House -- Family Allowance -- Kayak Dreams -- Post Inspection -- Showing the Flag -- Ready-Set-Go -- Dog Teams on the Trail -- The Crossing -- The Waterfall -- A Long Way to Cape Dorset -- The Ghost of Felix Conrad -- Hunting at the Floe Edge -- Sharing -- Arctic Inventions -- Inuit Myths and Legends -- Pootoogook -- A Traveling Show -- Chimo '52 -- A Family Divided -- A Journey to Hell -- Clouds -- The Costume Contest -- Ikeraksak -- Lost -- Camp Life -- Trouble -- A Financial Fix -- New Shamen -- Journey to Ellesmere -- Awh, the Food! -- Arctic Fever -- Serious Service -- Trading a Carving in the Early Days -- Baby Trouble -- X Marks the Spot -- Moon Man -- A Hunting Society -- Perfume and Tissue: The Ladies' Trap -- Pups -- The Little Sweet Harmonica -- Getting Married -- Coppermine and Kalvak -- Down at Enndai -- The Other World -- A Guest for Dinner -- Wife Changing, Old-Fashioned Style -- Star Shit -- Arctic Vintners -- Fast Tracks Inland -- The Mace -- Unicorn Horn -- Building the House 00 Letters That Hurt -- Round Dancing -- Cross Dressing -- Badly Turner -- Wife Seekers -- Man Without a Grave -- Traveling With Ian -- Dog in a Bullet -- The Egg Boat -- When Wandering Time Has Come -- Friends -- La Petite Yellow Monster -- Dynamite -- No Need for Maps -- Banished -- Printmaking -- Rabbit Eating Seaweed -- Japanese Lessons -- Legal Tender -- Big Money -- The Bring-Near Glass -- Children and Parents -- Going Outside -- Leghold -- Inuit Art -- Sleeping Arrangements -- First Real Tourists -- Letting the Mail Blow Away -- Soccer Game -- Losing a Tent -- Another Kind of Learning -- Russia -- Arctic Life Before the Snowmobile -- How Snowmobiles Save Walrus -- A Carving for the Queen -- Liquor -- The Paper Bag |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Donation (copy 1&2) ; William C. Wonders ; 2008/03. |
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| Topic Heading: | Houston, James -- Biography. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | 306.089971 HOU (Text) | 35146001331909 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
