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Reader Testimonials

Throughout, she describes challenges of daily life, such as learning to eat freshly butchered seal meat ...She also recounts how she had a hard time fitting into village society as well as her husband did...

Kirkus Review

In this richly detailed memoir, Burch takes readers back to the mid-1960s, when, as a newlywed, she joined her anthropologist husband Tiger on an extended visit to the Inuit village of Kivalina, Alaska, to assist him in his participant study of the natives.

BookLife Review

It’s not only a window into a life lived in an environment totally counter to anything the author knew, but a true glimpse into a time when women, intelligent and accomplished women like the author, were expected to go along, smile and pretend everything -even the worst situations - was just fine.

 A. E. Stewart, Amazon Review

The adventures of an intrepid woman on the adventure of a lifetime offer a rare glimpse into this way of life that will inspire and astonish you. 

Amazon Review

The journey at the heart of this adventure is the author’s true story of several torturous and gripping months she spent in Alaska—incredibly and monstrously far north in a tiny frozen community—50 years ago with her husband...

P. Glass, Amazon Review

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