Knud Rasmussen

A literary anthology explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the Arctic in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature writing, and fiction.

BLL 004097547

"Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. Initially the book was seen as an encounter between the historic clash of good and evil-Danish colonizers and the colonized Greenlanders. The book portrays this encounter in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the time. At the end of the novel comes a vision of a future, modern Greenland, freed from colonial humiliation and poverty: the first literary expression of the desire for progress which later became so prominent in Greenlandic poetry and politics. It also described the first required Danish education for primary school students, not to serve as subservient to the Danish, but as a necessary part of a Greenlanders education and growth. Later, this apparent contradiction came to characterize Greenlandic cultural policy."--Provided by publisher

Abridged translation by the author of Fra Grønland til Stillehavet.

Reprint of the 1932 edition

The fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24, under Rasmussen's command, explored the geography, language, technology, and ethnology of the Thule "Eskimos". It was reported in 10 volumes in Danish. It was subsequently abridged and translated to several languages, under titles including From Greenland to the Pacific and Across Arctic America.