THE LONG DAY
SPRING ON AN ARCTIC ISLAND, by Katharine Scherman; Victor Gollancz, English price 18/-. HIS record of six weeks on an island north of Baffin Island gives an impression of a longer stay than the short Arctic spring. Member of an American scientific party camping on Bylot Island to study its flora and fauna, the author was soon caught up in "the serene timelessness of the long, long day," when the sun never set and the temperature stayed about 36 degrees. She writes amusingly about the discomforts, and tells of exciting sled trips across the sea ice, of seal hunts, of netting salmon, of the activities of the many birds, and the appearance of wild flowers of the tundra. In Idlouk we are given a happy portrait of an Eskimo, expert hunter, sled driver and guide, observant and kind, always laughing and joking. But there is evidence that the Eskimos are becoming too dependent on the luxuries obtained at the trading post, where the author also spent some days, learning
much of interest about the life of the traders, the missionaries and the police. There are illustrative photographs.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 933, 28 June 1957, Page 13
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192THE LONG DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 933, 28 June 1957, Page 13
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