An account of the author's six-month journey by canoe to the great Northwest and the Arctic. The author describes the flora and fauna of the Northwest, the Native American tribes he encountered, and the history of the region.
Account of naturalist's trip with Edward A. Preble down the Athabasca and Slave rivers to the region of Clinton-Colden and Aylmer lakes, Mackenzie District, with notes on wildlife.
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.
Account of an expedition of geological exploration by the Tyrrell brothers in 1893, from Winnipeg to Edmonton, Fort Cipewyan, Chesterfield Inlet (Northwest Territories), Hudson's Bay and Churchill, Manitoba.
Early in 1891, Professor Arthur G. Smith and the writer planned to undertake a journey, during the summer months, to the northern shores of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, for the purpose of collecting ornithological specimens.