An African in Greenland
by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
This is the most wonderful travel book. It’s the story of a boy from Togo who went to Greenland in the 1960s to live with the Inuits and he learnt to dig an igloo burrow and drive dogs, and he integrated all right! He ended up in hospital with a suspected case of the clap.
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“This is the most wonderful travel book. It’s the best book ever written on Greenland. I read it while I was there. It’s the story of a man from Togo who went to Greenland in the 1960s and he didn’t carry the white man’s burden and could therefore look at the people and the country more objectively.” Read more...
The best books on The Polar Regions
Sara Wheeler, Travel Writer
