“How prepared are we now?” Barry asks, writing sometime in 2004, after finishing his definitive account of the 1918 flu pandemic. His biggest worry had to do with “governments and the truth.”
An Arctic Man, the classic memoir by Hudson Bay Boy Ernie Lyall
This book is an actual classic, or at least the cover of the 2011 re-issue I have says it is, and that cover is right.
Life Among the Qallunaat, a vital memoir by Mini Aodla Freeman
If you want a detailed, human, funny and tragic picture of changing Inuit life in Canada in the 1950s and ‘60s, look no further.
An Arctic Arab, or, the story of Peter Baker, free trader
“I, Peter Baker, known as the Arctic Arab, came from Lebanon during the Turkish conquest,” begins this 1976 memoir.
I searched for value in this atrocity of a book; I found none
I had developed the idea, independent of this book, that this screed, which has been denounced repeatedly since it was first published in 2008, might actually contain some merit that had been buried in poor rhetoric and politics. Wrong.
Old Town, by Fran Hurcomb
A concise, charming book that definitively documents ‘Yellowknife’s defining neighbourhood.’
Fire into Ice: The insanely adventurous life of Chuck Fipke, diamond hunter
Armchair adventure at its finest.
The Right to Be Cold: Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s urgent memoir
Earnest memoir recounts minute details of a fascinating life, bureaucratic tussles included.
I, Nuligak: A memoir of Inuvialuit life in the last heyday of the whalers
‘Because I was an orphan and a poor one at that, my mind was always alert to the happenings around me. Once my eyes had seen something, it was never forgotten.’
A short, jam-packed book of Yellowknife yarns
Ah, here it is. The book about the Yellowknife Yellowknifers love to live in.
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