Once again it's quite apparently that this book has been translated. But who cares! I enjoyed this chapter. In Greenland, dogs are not only beneficial, but highly necessary for travel. The authors describe how dogs are raised, the formations they make as they travel across ice and snow, etc. If you don't read this book the whole way through, I highly recommend this chapter.
I learned that the Greenland shark meat doesn’t taste good to humans and cannot be fed to dogs when it’s fresh or it has an effect rather like alcohol, sometimes being lethal. They can only eat it after it’s been dried 6 months, and even then it can cause cramping in more than tiny amounts. I also read that dogsleds are even used for firefighting, complete with water hoses and everything. Whoever happens to have most recently harnessed his team is expected to lend it to the firefighters and postpone his hunt.
And because all of these books have touched on religion to some extent, I will mention that “in contrast to other Inuit people, Greenlanders are Christian.”
In other news, here's a cute photo!
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