Isabel Avetis.

Great winter girl It is one of the books that we swallow in one, because it is exotic, attractive and well written. Isabel Aveties, honorary President of WWF FRANCE FOUNDATION and the first woman to end a solo sailing tour tells another pioneer, blood^simmer Century 1921 A journey of more than three years, from his north-west north-west to Alaska, and remarkable ethnographic work on the inhabitants of the Arctic and the residents of the Arctic became one of the rare female numbers of the priesthood history.

Madame Figaro. – How do you want to write this book?
Isabel EVERYTHING. – I sailed several times along the West Bank of Greenland. I was interested in the local story. Arnarulunguaq is relatively famous, the places are wearing his name. He is a unique, very atypical character. Than a woman born at Igloo at the end of the 19th century^simmer A century in a distant north, where almost no one goes, enters a certain way of respect, it is extremely rare.

It was especially difficult for Inuit’s life. At the age of 7, the Arnarulunguak was almost sacrificed by his mother.
We know that because he told Rasmussen that. This seems to be shocking, but this fact must be replaced in the context of time. Life in the far north was a lack of life. If the hunt was bad if the seals or reindeer were not there, we died, it’s as simple. When there was nothing, we ate a rabbit drops, we collect clothes, we chew the leather. And the last option, some of them were sacrificed in secular order to save the group. Those who had to survive before they were hunters. Then future hunters, that is, to say the boys. After that, adult women, because they played a key role in care, meals, skin skins. And finally, the little girls came, the least “helpful”. The old people often left themselves to die on the cold. We can’t understand this here and today, because we don’t know, even less hungry certainty. Arnarullungau was saved by his little brother who was against his sacrifice.

At that time, the women’s condition was not very jealous …
Indeed, but this is in many places, even now. Inuit Society was a car, women had to obey, but in the community they had an important place. In addition to children’s education, they care about skin work, making clothes, an important role, because if there were no stitches to your pants, you were not dead. They also hooked the little game. The big one, on the other hand, was banned for them. It was taboo on the grounds that he would stimulate his wife and disappeared.

That a woman left alone with the expedition with whites it never happened.
No. Some have participated in expeditions, kitchen or clothing, but they have left their husband. Arnarulungu was forced to leave with him, but he died at the beginning of the expedition and refused to return to his village. He wanted to meet his “living ancestors”, he knew that his people came from the West, Canada. Rasmussen, who knew his courage, his concrete intelligence agreed that he accompanied him.

Arnarulunguak wanted to meet his “living ancestors”, he knew that his people came from the West, Canada.

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What is left today?
A few things he said told Danish. For example, he was shocked to see that the peoples settled in the West of Canada began to accumulate goods. Everything was sold, it ended with the legends that the elderly lost $ 25. When they passed the United States back as soon as they returned from their trip, he was amazed at the Western live. There are also some photos, drawings. It reproduced body tattoos with an ethnographic approach. He helped Rasmussen to collect plants, but to hear stories, other tribes practice and recorded them. Because he understood that it was important, and that was what the researcher had come.

Is your book a tribute to all these women who have done big things and that we only change today?
There have been women artists, sculptors, composers or scouts over the past decades. But they used to act, they were mostly invisible. Or because we weren’t interested in what they did, it was definitely good than what men did, or worse, because it was not useless. Being an adventurer for a person was prestigious. While an adventure woman, she was a little bad life, sexually adventurer. For Grinish, who today have a strong desire for independence to Denmark, which belongs to their huge island, but now, which includes the importance of such historical characters such as Arnarulunguak. It is a way to restore their history, say that not only white people who have done great things, wonderful things. Also, without intrusion, they would die, they didn’t know how to do it. Rasmussen, who was partially invaded, knew how to hunt. But most of the stories of white people left by the North Pole were tragically over, they could not survive in this extreme environment.

To what extent can the northern peoples, their flexibility and intelligence?
The question is obviously not at all that at the beginning of the XX come back to live practice and in pronunciation^simmer Age But we can inspire ourselves to position themselves in connection with their nature. They feel belonging to be a part of it, which is typical of all the first peoples. They are only as a result, they do not accumulate. This is a vision that we are missing today. We have the impression of separating from nature, we have a pill, overlooked, gaslons. But what is our supermarkets, whether we like it or not, it comes to nature. And if we hurt it if we destroy it, we destroy ourselves. We have every interest to be inspired by the philosophy of the life of the life of his family.