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Whale Heart: Polar Politics and Persecution in the Arctic and Antarctic (Greenland Crime Book 5)
Book 5 of 7: Greenland Crime Each book adds something to at least this author's idea of the politics of Greenlandic life. A possession of Denmark Trumpf wanted to "buy." A country about which I knew nothing, beyond the irony of it's English name, since little is green. I thought it might be like Iceland, not far away, which is a bit like Sweden covered by so many Swedish writers. But it is perhaps more like Inuit society, some of which is in the same latitude. So many of the same issues as those faced by American indigenous peoples. I don’t know that the mystery aspect is worth 5 stars, but the ethnography and sense of the struggles between life as it was and modernity is fantastic.