The Giant of the North: Pokings Around the Pole; R.M. Ballantyne Series
San Antonio, TX: The Vision Forum, Inc., 2007. Revised. Hardcover. 5.25"x8.25". 411 pgs.pgs. No DJ. Fifth Printing. Each color of cloth boards in this series represents which geographic region the story is located in. This title the cloth boards are Gray which represents Arctic Regions. Title, with gilt line above and beneath, and a Scotch Thistle emblem in gilt on front. All this is mirrored on spine. Frontispiece "View from Cape Chaos." Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY! Near Fine. Item #12645
ISBN: 1934554057
"This is the tale of a giant Eskimo, Screekinbroot, also called Chingatok. Journey with our young heroes into the frozen tundra and icy waters of the North Pole regions for encounters with Eskimo peoples and to learn about their life and what it is like when the Kabiunets comes to the Arctic. Captain Vane, his son Benjamin, and his two nephews Leo and Alf come in search of the North Pole. When their ship, The White Bear, gets stuck in the ice, the party of mariners face icy adventures and, in the end, discover the North Pole. (This was written before the Pole had been discovered.) There they find an old man whose ancestor was John MackIntosh, one of the sailors of Captain Henry Hudson, who had journeyed to the north pole, married, and had children, one of whom was this old man." Goodreads rating 3.79.
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