Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
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Who are the Eskimo peoples? And how do they survive in the freezing conditions of the far north? Vilhjálmur Stefánsson left New York in April 1908 to begin his journey northwards and into the Arctic Circle. For the next two years he made his way northwards to Victoria Island to study an isolated group of Inuit who still used primitive tools and had strong Caucasian features, and whom some believed were descended from Vikings. The journey into these...