The Long Exile

A True Story of Deception and Survival Among the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic

• Author(s): Melanie McGrath,
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Pages: 302
• ISBN_10: 0007157967
  ISBN_13: 9780007157969
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Canada / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Canadian Studies , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies ,

Description:... In 1922, the Irish-American explorer, Robert Flaherty, made a film about the Canadian Arctic. 'Nanook of the North' starred a mythical Eskimo hunter. Two years after the release of the film, the man who played Nanook starved to death. This is a true story of deception & survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic.