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White Heat

Edie Kiglatuk seriesbook 1 of 3Next:The Boy in the Snow(2012) →

On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is Inuit hunter and guide, Edie Kiglatuk; a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists but when one of them is shot dead, the local Council of Elders in is keen to dismiss it as an accident.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 386 pages

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