greenland

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The transformation

2000
On a journey to appease the Sea's Mother, Navarana saves the life of one of the Strangers who had come to Greenland to rescue the few Christians living there and together they find a way to end the suffering of Navarana's people.

The shipwreck

2011
Shipwrecked off the coast of Greenland, Leiv Steinursson, a young Viking boy, is helped by two Inuit children, twelve-year-old Apuluk and his eleven-year-old sister Narva, and is accepted into their community, gladly leaving his violent lifestyle behind.

Greenland

2005
Discusses the geography and climate, history, wildlife, economy, government, people, religion, and culture of the island nation of Greenland.

Tobias has a birthday

1984
Tobias, who lives on a Greenland settlement with his family, celebrates his twelfth birthday in the traditional manner.

Tobias goes seal hunting

1984
In Greenland, a boy and his father hunt seals in their kayaks.

Tobias catches trout

1984
Tobias, a young Greenlander, goes on a trout fishing expedition with his family in their motor boat.

First light

2008
Twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, where he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never would have imagined possible.

Greenland mummies

1998
Describes the discovery of mummies in Greenland in 1972 and the work of forensic anthropologists who investigated the remains of these members of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Eskimos.

Ending in ice

the revolutionary idea and tragic expedition of Alfred Wegener
2006
Recounts Alfred Wegener's attempts to prove his theory that the world's continents had once formed a solid landmass before splitting apart and floating to their current positions, describing how his theory was rejected by the scientific community and his expeditions to Greenland in search of evidence that would prove his theory.

The raven's gift

a true story from Greenland
2001
Tells the true story of a man who, with a friend, set out on a difficult exploration of Greenland and was doubting his strength to continue until he was inspired by a remarkable encounter with a raven.

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