Roger Frison-Roche -- 1906, Indigenous peoples -- Northwest Territories, Inuit -- Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories -- Description and travel, Dene, Inuit, Northwest Territories 

"Roger Frison-Roche was born in Paris but settled in Chamonix, where he became a mountain guide and Alpinist. In 1935 he took part in the French expedition to the Hoggar Mountains. Africa fascinated him, so he moved to Algiers and became a journalist. His love of the out-of-doors led him to explore in northern Scandinavia and Africa after the war, and in 1968 he made an expedition to northern Canada.

In the Canadian Arctic, in the cruelest living conditions in the world, are two of the few peoples left who depend entirely on hunting to keep themselves alive. They are the Eskimos and the Indians. The author, with photographer Pierre Tairraz, went among these people during the winter, when conditions were at their worst: —35° Centigrade in the Indian lands and —40° to —50° around the Eskimo settlements. The two Frenchman shared the hardships, food and triumphs of the hunters. They travelled vast distances on sleds. They slept in tents and igloos, in shacks and cabins. Wherever they went they made friends with the hunters.

This is the story of their two expeditions. There will be few books to rival its shrewd account of two peoples who are gradually losing their tribal identity through intermarriage and through the spread of government programs for health, education and welfare."--Back cover. 

260 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.