An English nurse describes her years living and practicing in the beautiful and remote Canadian Yukon in this autobiographical account. Being the nurse for the Old Crow Village, a small settlement of 200 native Inuit people, provided the author with insight into an entirely different culture. Pulled from her letters to friends and loved ones, the descriptions of daily life so far away from civilization and amidst such grand and rugged scenery are written with humor, honesty, and sometimes love and pity as she comes to know the people she is treating.