Description:Travel writer Lawrence Millman and his Inuit companions set out for an uncharted island off the coast of the Canadian Arctic. When the engine on their boat dies, the men find themselves marooned.
So Millman does what every self-respecting adventurer would do - he sets out to explore. “If I’d been standing on the moon, I might have felt a greater sense of solitude than I felt at that moment,” he writes in this colorful travelogue, “but I doubt it.” Here’s a story that features an albino walrus, ferocious mosquitoes, the ever-present threat of a polar-bear attack, and an engine repair facilitated by seaweed.