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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Magic Words describes a world where humans and animals share bodies and<br>languages, where the world of the imagination mixes easily with the physical. It<br>began as a story that told how the Inuit people came to be and became a legend<br>passed from generation to generation. In translation it grew from myth to poem.<br>The text comes from expedition notes recorded by Danish explorer Knud<br>Rasmussen in 1921. Edward Field got a copy from the Harvard Library and<br>translated it into English.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Unknown author. The translator is Edward Field. In the 1960s he was asked to<br>translate a book of Inuit Eskimo poems for a teaching program. He received many<br>honors for his poetry and toured the country reading at universities as well as The<br>Library of Congress. He lives in New York City with his blind partner with whom he<br>has collaborated on several novels under their pseudonym Bruce Elliot.

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