Memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic traveller : serving under Kane, Hayes, Hall and Nares, 1853-1876. London: Trübner & co., 1878. 8vo (87 x 120 mm). [4], 100 pp. Translated from the Eskimo language by Dr. Henry Rink. Edited by George Stephens Frontispiece map. Original cloth. Light shelfwear; first gathering foxed. Provenance: Berkshire Athenæum (bookplate, spine label, marks to lower pastedown). FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST ARCTIC NARRATIVE BY AN INUK, very scarce in commerce. Hans Hendrik, also known as Hans Christian (native name Suersaq), was a Greenlandic Arctic traveler and interpreter, born in the southern settlement of Fiskernaes. He is the first Inuk to publish an account of his Arctic explorations. Hans Island is named after him. Hendrik was hired by the American explorer Elisha Kent Kane for the 1853-55 Second Grinnell Expedition to search for the lost Franklin expedition. He established his worth in the winter of 1854, when participating in a search for four of the men who were lying frozen and disabled somewhere northwest of the ship, which was beset in the ice in Rensellaer Bay. Hendrik located their sledge track, which brought the rescue party to the men. See Dictionary of Canadian Biograhy Online.
Memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic traveller : serving under Kane, Hayes, Hall and Nares, 1853-1876. London: Trübner & co., 1878. 8vo (87 x 120 mm). [4], 100 pp. Translated from the Eskimo language by Dr. Henry Rink. Edited by George Stephens Frontispiece map. Original cloth. Light shelfwear; first gathering foxed. Provenance: Berkshire Athenæum (bookplate, spine label, marks to lower pastedown). FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST ARCTIC NARRATIVE BY AN INUK, very scarce in commerce. Hans Hendrik, also known as Hans Christian (native name Suersaq), was a Greenlandic Arctic traveler and interpreter, born in the southern settlement of Fiskernaes. He is the first Inuk to publish an account of his Arctic explorations. Hans Island is named after him. Hendrik was hired by the American explorer Elisha Kent Kane for the 1853-55 Second Grinnell Expedition to search for the lost Franklin expedition. He established his worth in the winter of 1854, when participating in a search for four of the men who were lying frozen and disabled somewhere northwest of the ship, which was beset in the ice in Rensellaer Bay. Hendrik located their sledge track, which brought the rescue party to the men. See Dictionary of Canadian Biograhy Online.
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