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In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the 'gentlemen adventurers' - the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. In the Arctic he found adventure, love and sadness as he came to grips with Eskimo life. Beautifully written, inspiring and funny, this is a boy's own story that captures a world now lost forever.
At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the
Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and
ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where
there was no communication with the outside world and only one ship
arrived each year. But he was not alone. The Inuit people who
traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and
survive ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and
became completely immersed in their culture, earning the name
Issumatak, meaning "he who thinks."
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