#popular history

Accuracy – and respect for Inuit culture – matter

Becasue I see people online writing about Ice Ghosts. I hesitated to post a link to this in the fear I may come across as a know it all for encouraging people to avoid what on the surface looks authoritative by saying ‘you should actually read this first’. I like to give people the credit to be able to pull the facts from opinions when reading popular history and know what doesn’t match with everything else they’ve read, but lack of ethics on the authors part is something that should make people avoid buying their product altogether and it isn’t always obvious without knowing the background. I had bought the book when it came out and was jarred like 5 or 10 pages in by the inaccuracies, then read this and wish I’d known what an ass in plain english the author was before I gave him my money. Needless to say I can’t reference what my first wait….what? Moment was since I got rid of it after reading this. Think it was the Fitzjames writing his 'wife’ thing.