Only been skimming the conversation about books so sorry if this is a bit oblique! It's old, and out of print, but it was a best seller in 1956... "Spring on an Arctic Island" by Katharine Sherman. Set on Bylot Island in the Canadian High Arctic. Bylot became a Preserve, partly as result of the interest generated by this book over the years. It is an "old-style" narrative, without all the personal torment and "angst" that passes for travel writing has in the present decade.. She's a great writer, without being overly sentimental. It's about an Inuit culture on Pond Inlet, (in it's 11th hour, before snowmobiles and modern housing arrived, a culture still with only one foot ( or paddle) in the 20th C.It's about sea-kayaking,hunting, the rhythm of water, ice, wind,etc. It's about people, a strange land, and adventure. Anfd few have written as well since. rich dempsey ridem_at_msn.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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