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In the 1970s Tom Lowenstein spent a lot of time in an Alaskan Inuit village, studying the history, customs and life of the inhabitants. This book records the events and fascinations of those days.

On a tiny peninsula, the Inuit of Tikigaq worshipped the whales they killed, evolving an elaborate system of myths and rituals to accompany the hunt. Lowenstein began to explore these in 1973 and recorded the complex tales of the elders, providing a classic text on the vanishing culture of the North Alaskan wilderness.