Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins, in collaboration with Lewis Galantiere - 1941

NY: Popular Library, 1941. Previous owner's name in ink on inside front cover, else very clean and tight textblock, with moderate edge wear. 240p.. Reprint. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo over 6¾" 7¾" Tall. Paperback.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. 1941. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Bookplate. Previous owner's name; 339 pages .

New York, NY: reynal and hitchcock inc, 1941. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. The book contains many drawings by the author and 32 pages of black-and-white photographs in the first edition. In the United States, where it was most popular, it is considered a classic of travel literature. Kabloona recounts... 339 p. hardcover condition good The book contains many drawings by the author and 32 pages of black-and-white photographs in the first edition. In the United States, where it was most popular, it is considered a classic of travel literature. Kabloona recounts Poncin's solo unsupported journey in the Canadian Arctic near King William Island, Canada, where he lived with the Inuit (in those days, still generally called the Eskimos for about 15 months during the period 1938 to late 1939. Poncins was a French aristocratic count in his late thirties. Bored with the business world, Poncins became a freelance journalist so that he could travel, selling accounts of his experiences to newspapers and… Read More

New York: Reynal, Hitchcock, Inc, 1941. Written in collaboration with Lewis Galantiere, Gontran de Poncins' Kabloona recounts the French aristocrat's solo unsupported journey in the Canadian Arctic, where he lived with the Inuit for nearly 15 months between 1938 and 1939. Bored with the business world, curiosity drew de Poncins to exotic areas throughout the world; his unique technique in relaying his observations of the cultures he discovered was not scientific, but provided stylized personal points of view and descriptions. Initially describing the Inuit way of life as primitive and inferior, de Poncins soon experienced a deep spiritual awakening after undergoing weeks of hardship in the Arctic and became so well-adapted to the lifestyle he was essentially adopted by the Inuit.