Published in conjunction with his daughter's memoir Kipling's Cat, this is the private diary of biochemist/diplomat/painter Jeffries Wyman during his monthlong stay in Arctic Alaska in 1951. It offers vivid descriptions of the rigors and pleasures of traditional Inuit life-hunting, trapping, and fishing; playing games; making ingenious use of scarce resources. With full-color reproductions of Wyman's watercolor landscapes, portraits, and interiors of the igloo he called home.