{"product_id":"9781926824451","title":"Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes: Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84)","description":"Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden\/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fledgling scientist Franz Boas (1858-1942), later the eminent cultural anthropologist, hired Weike to attend to and assist him in his geographical and ethnological research following the first Polar Year of 1882-83. Weike’s journal is a fascinating text and an exceptional piece of working-class literature.  Ludger Müller-Wille and Bernd Gieseking have edited and annotated Weike’s journal extensively. They present his biography and highlight his observations and his contributions to Boas’s scientific work.","brand":"Baraka Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137427423472,"sku":"9781926824451","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781926824451_p0.jpg?v=1763635448","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926824451","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}