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Jean Malaurie
AuthorBooks · Second hand1922-2024
Jean Malaurie was a French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, physicist, and writer. He and Kutsikitsoq, an Inuk, were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on 29 May 1951.
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Birth
1922
Death
2024
First book
1955
Years writing
71
Jean Malaurie was a prominent French ethnologist and geographer who dedicated his life to studying polar regions.
His most iconic work, The Last Kings of Thule, is a fundamental testimony on Inuit culture.
Throughout his prolific career, he published 48 works focused on exploration and anthropology.
Born in Mainz in 1922, Malaurie combined his role as an explorer with that of an editor and ethnohistorian.
His legacy remains an essential reference for understanding the history and life of Arctic peoples.