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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 December 2014
    22 May 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107281264
    9781108071062
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107281264
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 336 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historical Geography, History, History of Native American Peoples, Anthropology
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historical Geography, History, History of Native American Peoples, Anthropology
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    In 1759, David Crantz (or Cranz) was sent to Greenland for a year by the Moravian Church. Writing in German, Crantz (1723–77) published in 1765 his detailed observations on the country, its people and their way of life, including a history of the Moravian mission there. This English translation appeared in two volumes in 1820, prepared by staff at the Fulneck School in West Yorkshire, where a Moravian community existed. The text is illustrated with several engravings that depict landscapes as well as kayaks, weapons and tools used by the Greenlanders, providing a valuable visual record of eighteenth-century life among the native population. Volume 2 contains an account of Moravian missionary activity in Greenland since 1733, tracing how the Moravians managed to brave the conditions while spreading the Gospel among the people. An appendix looks at the Moravian settlement established on the coast of Labrador.

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