Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first expedition to the Arctic. George Back's prose captures the drama of

Was a member of the Fiala-Ziegler Expedition, 1903-1905.

20 short stories accompanied by pen and ink drawings interpreting the mythological and contemporary world of this Inuk artist/author.

An illustrated archeology of the imagination that reveals how artists and writers from the late 16th to the early 19th century, most of whom had never seen Nort