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.

Report on examination of about 75 prehistoric sites and nearly 50 historic and recent camps in area north and west of Great Bear Lake.

An account of a journey in 1889 to the desert region of Canada between Hudson Bay and the Arctic Sea, in order to find and study the musk-ox and its Indian hunters.

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.

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.

Archaeological work at Kittigazuit carried out during the summers of 1969 and 1970.