Comock: The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter

by Robert Joseph Flaherty (Primary Contributor)

In 1912, on the edge of the North American frontier Robert Flaherty was on a hunting expedition. Flaherty, an American-born prospector and a pioneer filmmaker, chanced to see the landing of an overcrowded, leaking, sealskin vessel, that held an Inuit hunter named Comock, his wife and their eleven children. This is their story.

Genres: History, Biography, Anthropology

127 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Robert Joseph Flaherty, FRGS was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with Moana (1926), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran (1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands. Flaherty is considered the father of both the documentary and the ethnographic film.

Flaherty was married to writer Frances Hubbard Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951. Frances worked on several of her husband's films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for Louisiana Story (1948).

Reviews

[Aommie K.]

หนังสือเก่ามากแล้ว ถ้ากระดาษไม่หายไป10กว่าหน้าคงสนุกกว่านี้

[Helen]

This book is an amazing find! You can learn from First Peoples from the early 1900's how they survived on a deserted icy island north of Canada, alone, for ten years! Authentic photos of similar people from the time are also in the book.