Greenland, Vol. 2: Published by the Commission for the Direction of the Geological and Geographical Investigations in Greenland; The Past and Present Population of Greenland (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Greenland, Vol. 2: Published by the Commission for the Direction of the Geological and Geographical Investigations in Greenland; The Past and Present Population of Greenland

But this is not all. Nature not only circumscribes the growth of culture in those regions; she also fixes, ao minimum except which the country is inaccessible. Only the culture capable of liberating itself from the forests arid of conquering the cold and darkness of the Arctic winter could find its way Into Greenland. And this condition was fulfilled by the Eskimos, with their ice-hunting of sea mammals and their blubber lamp.

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