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The shipwreck / written by Jorn Riel ; illustrated by Helen Cann.

Riel, Jørn. (Author). Cann, Helen, (Added Author).
  • Description: 111 p. : col. ill., map ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Paw Prints,
  • ISBN: 9781451740417
  • ISBN: 1451740417

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Gloucester Children's Fiction J/Riel (Text to phone) Available -

Contents: Leiv -- Narua and Apuluk -- The foreign ships -- Shipwreck -- The boy on the pole -- Acceptance -- The three friends -- On the ice floe -- The bear -- The boy who wanted to be Inuk.
Summary: Shipwrecked off the coast of Greenland, Leiv Steinursson, a young Viking boy, is helped by two Inuit children, twelve-year-old Apuluk and his eleven-year-old sister Narva, and is accepted into their community, gladly leaving his violent lifestyle behind.
Notes: Originally published in Danish in one volume under title: Drengen som ville være menneske, in 1979.

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