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Describes the art of Greenland from the earliest times to the present.
Translation of the Danish edition "Gronlands Historie II, 1770-1782", published by Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1969.
Celebrates the diversity of life through the exploration of cultures around the world.
This book is about Greenland’s rapidly changing role in the world and about it’s complex connections to Denmark, its former colonizer. It is about Greenland’s possible secession from the Kingdom of Denmark, oil, uranium and the difficulties that Greenlanders and Danes often have when they try to talk about their common past and Greenland’s place in the new, global future. The first part of this book builds on my travels and encounters with Greenland’s politicians, fishermen, schoolteachers and intellectuals – including my old classmate from Maniitsoq, who became a very wise vicar in her hometown and now appears in chapter 3. Through all these conversations I learned just how dram...
History of Greenland, this country is not familiar with too many people, although Greenland is a country that serves lots of interest, this book on Greenland provides you the information on the countries environment, government system, Politics, tourism and the people's culture and tradition.Overview:Greenland was probably originally settled by descendants of the present Inuit culture, who identify the island as Kalaalit Nunaat-meaning "land of the people"-in their native language. It received the name Greenland from Norse explorer Eiríkur Rauðe Þorvaldsson (known today as Erik the Red). He sailed from Iceland to the island in 982 C.E. and spent the next three years farming a plot of land along the southern coastline.
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