Publisher's Synopsis
No one has written as passionately or as articulately about the Arctic and its people as Farley Mowat. In this novel he returns to this subject for the first time in several decades. Using one of his own trips through the Eastern Arctic as a starting point, he interweaves the stories of the Barren Ground Inuit with stunning, lyrical descriptions of the Northern landscape. Full of larger-than-life characters -- old-time Hudson's Bay company men, eccentric priests, wild bush pilots and well-meaning interlopers -- this is storytelling at its best. An unforgettable account by one of Canada's most committed and impassioned voices.
