ON FIRM ICE
When winter comes n northern Canada and the ice is firm and thick, the Netsilik Inuit pack up their belongings and move out onto the frozen waters of Pelly Bay. At night in the great igloo there are feasts and songs and games. But winter is a time of hardship, too, when survival depends upon helping one another. Men must hunt and work well together in the seal camp, and when they do the Inuit say they are men on firm ice.
These remarkable stories give us a profound knowledge of how things were among the Netsilik before outsider brought them metal tools and new ways. William Berry's illustrations, authentic, stark, and beautiful in their simplicity, match perfectly the spirit of this distinguished book.