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An abridged version of the journals and reports written by Samuel Hearne, the first whitey to reach the Arctic Ocean in North America by land in the 1790's. Took him a couple tries and a couple years. Lived and travelled with Aboriginals the whole time and talks about their culture, cuisine, temperaments, the land and climate, etc. Talks about how they cook and eat Caribou stomachs along with all the moss and berries inside, the genocidal hatred of a tribe he travelled with and how they went about killing a group of Inuit, talks about making canoes and snowshoes, the fur trade, hunting moose and deer (moose just let you kill them if they're swimming but deer thrash about and can break your canoe/kayak), the kind of deadly conditions people had to deal with, etc. One time they got stuck on a hill under a nearly sub-zero rain and howling wind for several days, without being able to pitch their tents or cook food because of the wind and couldn't leave the hill because they were staying out of reach of a flood surrounding them. Surprisingly it doesn't seem like anyone got too sick, meanwhile our 21st century asses would probably die.
