For 25 years the poet John Haines lived, trapped, and hunted on the windswept hills above the Tanana River east of Fairbanks, Alaska. In this remarkable collection of essays he turns a poet's eye on his existence there and captures a life lived for the sake of survival.
Eleven Inuit legends and tales from the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions include "How Thunder and Lightning Came to Be," "The Hardhearted Rich Man," and "The Sea Otter Girl."
