Kabluna : Mi vida entre los inuits

Between 1938 and 1939, Gontran de Poncins traveled beyond the arid lands, north of the Arctic Circle, to King William Island, where winter temperatures typically reach -50°C. There he spent fifteen months living among the twenty-five Netsilik Inuit who inhabited the island. At first, he was horrified by their way of life, which he considered primitive: they ate raw fish, slept with each other's wives, had no set schedules, and used each other's possessions without permission. But as the odyssey continued, he transformed from a kabluna, the white man, an incomprehensible and uncomprehending outsider, into an inuk: a man. This account has become a testament to the encounter of two ways of thinking, a demonstration of the gradual evolution of the European attitude, culminating in admiration for such a different people. Poncins reveals that his adventure turned out to be much more than a simple journey and describes the painful but fascinating initiation into the life, customs, mentality and harsh reality of the Inuit people, as well as their worldview