The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic

At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no communication with the outside world and only one ship arrived each year. But he was not alone. The Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and became completely immersed in their culture, earning the name Issumatak, meaning ?he who thinks.?

In The Last Gentleman Adventurer, Edward Beauclerk Maurice relates his story of coming of age in the Arctic and transports the reader to a time and a way of life now lost forever.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-05-2009; Excellent Partial Autobiography of Edward Beauclerk Maurice; Excellent biographical history snapshot of Edward Maurice's life with the eastern Canada Inuit people -- a view of life at two Hudson's Bay Company posts by a sensitive and tallented (learned to speak their language fluently) young...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-15-2008; I felt like I was in the arctic with the main character!; I had never really read anything like this book before, but for some reason the story's unique setting, the Arctic, drew me in. The main character is so endearing, hard-working, honest, and lovable that you cheer for him throughout all...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-11-2008; Fantastic, observant novel about Arctic life and Hudson's Bay Company.; Of the many, many books I've read involving Arctic expeditions and experiences, this one is one of the best, among the ranks of Gontran De Poncins' 'Kabloona' and Vladimir Albanov's 'In The Land of the White Death.' I found it to have a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-16-2008; The Last Gentleman Adventurer; This was an amazing story of the early years of the Hudson Bay Company and a year of young mans life at a trading post in the Arctic. I couldn't stop reading. I only wish the author had not stopped his story writing.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-05-2009; Excellent Partial Autobiography of Edward Beauclerk Maurice; Excellent biographical history snapshot of Edward Maurice's life with the eastern Canada Inuit people -- a view of life at two Hudson's Bay Company posts by a sensitive and tallented (learned to speak their language fluently) young...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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