Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. Blue cloth lettered in silver and copper on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white drawings by the author. In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world. Clean copy.
