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Illustrated by Alan Haemer dj art. Good in Good dust jacket. Cock, spine sun, edges tone, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket tone, rub, edgewear with small tears and chips, wear. Solid hardcover.; Collection of fictional sketches of Eskimo life by Italian/Swiss race driver and writer, who never visited the Arctic. "As each appearance of one of my Eskimo stories, in an American magazine or abroad, has entailed a deluge of letters inquiring whether the background I used had any factual base, I now wish to state beforehand that the social, sexual, and alimentary habits, the religious beliefs, the medical practices, and other modes and manners described in this book, though it sails under the flag of fiction, are sober anthropological facts, applying chiefly to the Central Eskimos."-Cold Facts. Basis for the 1960 film The Savage Innocents starring Anthony Quinn, with an uncredited early role by Peter O'Toole.; 0 pages.
Hans Ruesch paints a vivid picture of the home life of an Inuit family living on the permanent ice at the top of the world. He tells a very real human story of survival in the harshest of conditions, but his characters not only survive--they thrive. Top of the World is a story of human ingenuity and adaptability at its best.