Top of World

Threatened by relentless cold and civilization's harsh intrusion, they endured with dignity and laughter. TOP OF THE WORLD This is the extraordinary international best seller of adventure, danger and incredible courage among the Polar Eskimos... a people whose buoyant happiness and gaiety defy six months of darkness, whose generous code of honor among friends includes the loan of a wife or a knife...

Excelent book that shows the culture of the Inuit, a culture free of poisoned feelings and thoughts, later infected viral and psicologicly by the white man and his religion.

I read this book many years ago and loved every single page!!Now I am looking for a copy to buy for my son and daughter, because I want them to experience the wonderful feeling of reading this extraordinary book. I lent my copy so many times I eventually lost track or it(as often happens). Wonderful in many ways...a window into another way of life and more ways of looking at life. A must-read!!

This book is an antrhopologically correct fiction based upon the lifestyle of the Inuit, or Eskimo. An adventure of survival in bitter cold. In a world where life seems impossible, they have developed the tools and the know how to not only survive, but to come to terms with the cold. Personally I was introduced to this book in undergraduate school, and read it every winter. The Inuit appear to do everything back ward to our common sense, pointing out the ethnocentricity that we all have. They eat rotten meat, build their homes on frozen ocean surfaces, and use the permanent deep freeze of the artic as an ally. Hard to put down, it will change your perspective of culture as you know it.