{"product_id":"9781459729896-ukkusiksalik","title":"Ukkusiksalik","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe People's Story\u003cbr\u003eUkkusiksalik, now a national park, was in earlier times the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was criss-crossed by missionaries, Mounties, and traders. David F. Pelly presents the stories of Inuit elders and historical records to provide a complete history of this extraordinary corner of our northern landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region  was the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was criss-crossed by missionaries, Mounties, and traders. Since the 1980s, Arctic writer and researcher  David F. Pelly has been exploring this region on foot and by sea-kayak, and  with Inuit friends, while documenting Inuit traditional knowledge of the land. In this book, he presents the stories of Inuit elders and includes historical records to provide a complete history of this extraordinary corner of our northern landscape, Ukkusiksalik.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419648213366,"sku":"9781459729896","price":28.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28355796.jpg?v=1742874183","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781459729896-ukkusiksalik","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}