Stone-Age Winter
KABLOONAGontran de PoncinsReynal & Hitchcock ($3).
Gontran de Poncins is a French ethnographer who can also draw, make photographs and write. A highly civilized man, he felt in 1938 a need for simplification, and removed himself to King William Land, an island not far from the Magnetic Pole. There he spent fall, winter and spring among a people withdrawn some 20,000 years from civilization, a stone-age remnant: the Netsilik Eskimos. Kabloona (Eskimo for white man), written in collaboration with Lewis Galantière, is his description of that strange year.
Eskimo life, the most...
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