Ivalu - Láska v polárních krajích – Freuchen Peter (2023)

When a person fights for survival, previously important things suddenly lose their significance, and quite different values come to the forefront. ***** A young Inuit woman, Ivalu, survives day by day because her family lacks a provider-hunter. She has no shortage of suitors but remains true to her dream: she wants to become the wife of a white man. Then a Danish fox hunter, Basi, arrives in the settlement and builds a house there. When his treacherous assistant, Minik, tries to abduct Ivalu and force her to become his wife, Basi saves her, and they begin to live together. Basi, who considers himself a member of a more advanced civilization, repeatedly finds himself in situations where he must acknowledge that his wife, deemed primitive by white people, makes much wiser decisions and handles difficult, life-threatening situations far better. ***** This story from the early twentieth century is told from the perspective of the indigenous Inuit, who comment with astonishment and unintentional humor on the unfamiliar situations brought into their lives by the newly arrived white men. The reader becomes acquainted with a now-extinct way of life of the inhabitants of Greenland, their way of thinking, participates in polar bear hunting, and understands the dynamics of a group dependent on the wealth of the catch, where...