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Vikings of to-day

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By Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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A physician and missionary recounts journeys along a harsh northern coast, describing landscape, ice and wildlife, fishing methods, and local livelihoods; he records medical and relief work among isolated fishing communities, the challenges of travel and supply, encounters with Inuit families, sealers, and dogs, and the effects of the truck system on poverty and health. Practical case histories, appeals for support, and reflections on enterprise and resilience accompany observations of natural history, nautical hazards, and the establishment of hospitals and mission stations, with appended medical statistics and testimonies.

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Title: Vikings of to-day

Or, life and medical work among the fishermen of Labrador

Author: Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Author of introduction, etc.: Frederick Treves

Release date: April 21, 2025 [eBook #75927]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1895

Credits: Fiona Holmes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.

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Transcriber’s Note

Page 23—the word ‘redpoles’ have been left as originally spelt.

Page 62—presbyterian changed to Presbyterian.

The Footnotes have been changed to a numeric order and placed at the end of paragraphs they relate to.

The book cover is labelled - “Labrador and its people, Grenfell”, whereas the book is officially entitled, “Vikings of to-day, or life and medical work among the fishermen of Labrador.”

VIKINGS OF TO-DAY

S.S. PRINCESS MAY.

VIKINGS OF TO-DAY

Or Life and Medical Work
among the
Fishermen of Labrador

BY

WILFRED T. GRENFELL, M.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P. Holder of the Board of Trade Certificate of Competency as Master Mariner

ILLUSTRATED FROM
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York Chicago Toronto Publishers of Evangelical Literature

Dedicated

BY KIND PERMISSION TO

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK,

whose practical and gracious interest in the welfare of
these far-off “Toilers of the Deep” has served in
no small way to assist this enterprise, and to
fire with loyal affections the hearts of
England’s sons across the sea.