The White Dawn Author:James Houston "Told by an eskimo, it carries you along with a ferocity that puts you on the dog-pulled sled with him rushing headlong accross the groaning ice. You are thrust into the savage excitement of the hunt, hear the throb of the drum and share the sensual delights of the wife-changing dance, feel in your belly the relentless probing of starvation, and... more » come to comprehend completely the tragedy that had to overtake these sea-ice hunters who so abhorred violence - and their three white guests, acting no differently than you or I might. James Houston, who lived with the Eskimos of Baffin Island for a dozen years, has written a novel of extraordinary authenticity, a boiling, vivid adventure."« less