IT was in early October that for the first time in my life I saw the sea congeal, saw the moving waters freeze and petrify in waves, in ridges, and in hollows. There are many people round the world ...

“Igloo” is derived from the Inuit word “igdlu” meaning “house.” It should actually be used to describe any Inuit or Eskimo dwelling, regardless of its construction. In the Eskimo culture, igloo ...

Twelve hundred miles north of the U.S. border, in a land of frozen inlets and howling winds, above the upper reaches of Hudson Bay, is Cape Dorset. Only a cluster of frame houses, snow huts and ...

People and the land -- Igloo -- Living in an igloo -- Snow villages -- Traveling in the Arctic -- Other kinds of Eskimo houses -- Eskimos today -- Index Describes how an igloo is constructed and the ...

When building materials are hard to come by, you make do with what you have! We’re discovering how one of the coldest materials can help you stay warm at the top of the world. * The “igloo” -- the ...

THE Eskimo, preëminently a nomad and a sea hunter, is driven from point to point round an irregular circle by the need to feed his family, and it is the revolution of the seasons that directs his ...

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