James A. Houston

While searching for a gold mother lode, the Morgans and their two friends come upon a pool covered with iridescent oil. Could it be "black diamonds", as oil is known by those who seek it? Sequel to "Frozen Fire".

Followed by a huge grizzly bear, an Eskimo brother and sister make a perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra to bring back a frozen caribou to their hungry family.

When the caribou herds fail to return in the spring, famine becomes so acute that a young Eskimo boy sets out alone in search of food.

Two boys spending a summer at a research station in the Arctic to study the migration of whales learn deep sea diving and encounter dangerous adventure.

After years of constant warfare, an Indian chieftain and the young people of his tribe take a daring unarmed trip into their enemies' territory seeking peace.

This autobiographical narrative uniquely evokes the old days in the Arctic, when mail came to Baffin Island only once a year, on the icebreaker. In 1948 James Houston, a twenty-seven-year-old Canadian army veteran and art student, got an unexpected plane ride to the distant North. There he felt instantly at home with the smiling, utterly confident native people, who quickly accepted him as their friend. He lived among Inuit from 1948 to 1962, serving for part of that time as the civil administrator for West Baffin Island, an area of 65,000 square miles. His major objective, though, was to encourage the natural abilities of Inuit artists and help them develop an Eskimo cooperative, which provided an essential connection to outlets in the South for their remarkable stone-block prints and stone sculptures.

Kiviok goes in search of his wife, who, under the spell of a wicked raven, has flown away with their children.

Two young boys, who have been sent into the Canadian interior to set up a fur-collecting station, are befriended by a Naskapi Indian family.

In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world.

Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture.

Hiding dangerous discoveries that she made a decade earlier while working with a covert string theory research team, physics professor Elisa Robledo is horrified when she learns that her former team members have been brutally murdered.

A young Eskimo hunter fights for survival while stranded on an isolated and desolate island.