In Talking to Angels, Perkins records not only travels to the far north but also urgent journeys of a different kind. In 1968, at age nineteen, he was institutionalized for a year in a prestigious East Coast psychiatric hospital.

A two volume report dealing with the broad social, economic, and environmental impacts that a gas pipeline and an energy corridor would have in the Mackenzie Valley and the western arctic.

The story of an expedition lead by George Mellis Douglas in 1911-12 to the Coppermine River to search for copper.

Account of an expedition of geological exploration by the Tyrrell brothers in 1893, from Winnipeg to Edmonton, Fort Chipewyan, Chesterfield Inlet (Northwest Territories), Hudson Bay and Churchill, Manitoba.

Collection of reminiscences of life in northern Canada, based on authors experiences when inspecting Revillon Freres trading posts.