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Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North

by Peter Freuchen · 1935

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An adventure classic by the famed explorer who lived among the Greenland Inuit. (SEE QUOTE.)

Subject
historybiography
Genre
adventure
Themes
travel
Setting
ArcticGreenland
Audience
adult
Length
long · 440 pages

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