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Kiviok's Magic Journey; An Eskimo Legend.
Kiviok the Eskimo searches for his wife and their two children who have been spirited away by a wicked raven
200 pages, Library Binding
First published December 31, 1973
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November 11, 2022
A beautifully illustrated picture book about Kiviok, an Inuit (Eskimo, at the time of writing) hunter at the dawn of time, and his wife - a snow goose caught in human form when an evil raven steals her feather coat during a swim. Kiviok and his wife have two children, and the evil raven returns to enchant wife Kungo, son Kungo and daughter Kungola into snow geese, who migrate south without their human father. ("Kungo kungo kungo" is the cry of the snow goose).
The magical and mythology-rich story describes Kiviok's dangerous and enchanted journey south to find his wife and children again.
Right up there with The Enchanted Caribou for me, in terms of favourite far-North young children's lit. Imaginative and unique.
This book can be read for free on OpenLibrary.
The magical and mythology-rich story describes Kiviok's dangerous and enchanted journey south to find his wife and children again.
Right up there with The Enchanted Caribou for me, in terms of favourite far-North young children's lit. Imaginative and unique.
This book can be read for free on OpenLibrary.
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