But how much longer will John commit to this newfound perspective when presented with the opportunity to return to his own past and family? Though crippled, John rises to the Chukchi view of a person. He begins to understand ehri community, respects them, and makes an effort to be accepted as one of them. Having had his hands amputated, crippled with little hope of returning home, the Chukchi community decides to adopt this wounded stranger and teaches him to live as a true human being.įrom thinking of Chukchi as savages, John comes to know his new companions as real people who share the best and worst of human traits with his own kind. John MacLennan, a Canadian sailor is left behind by his ship, stranded on the northeastern tip of Siberia. Nursed back to health by Arctic aborigines, a Canadian sailor finds his loyalties torn between his new people and the life he left behind-a novel full of “passion, strength, and beauty of a world we.
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