Books: Big Dane Tamed

IT'S ALL ADVENTURE—Peter Freuchen —Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50).

Other explorers have contributed more to geographical knowledge, but the most picturesque, the heartiest and the biggest storyteller of the lot is 52-year-old Peter Freuchen (Eskimo, Arctic Adventure). A giant, bearded, Danish Jew. Freuchen quit medical school at 20 to join a Greenland expedition, married an Eskimo woman by whom he had two children, lived 18 years among the Eskimos as trader and hunter.

It's All Adventure, sequel to Arctic Adventure, covers the period from 1924, when Freuchen went home to Denmark, till 1932, when he went...

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