{"product_id":"9781550173529","title":"Mountie in Mukluks: The Arctic Adventures of Bill White","description":"But readers of \u003ci\u003eMountie in Mukluks\u003c\/i\u003e will soon realize they are in the presence of one of the most un-cop-like cops who ever built an igloo. And by the time they have finished they will never be able to think quite the same way about the fabled Redcoats, or life in the far north. \u003cbr\u003eDuring the 1930s, Bill White gave up trapping and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, volunteering for arctic service. Arctic life was so dodgy in those days of the Mad Trapper and The Lost Patrol, the force couldn't send you there against your will, so volunteering was the only way to get there. Bill started out crewing on the historic RCMP patrol ship \u003ci\u003eSt. Roch\u003c\/i\u003e under the command of the legendary Captain Henry Larsen, but hungered for greater adventure and requested a posting ashore upon reaching Cambridge Bay. \u003cp\u003eAdventure he found: \u003ci\u003eMountie in Mukluks\u003c\/i\u003e includes hair-raising accounts of a near-death experience under the ice on a frozen river; of a 1200-mile dog-sled chase after an arctic murderer; and of numerous fascinating encounters with shamans, telepathy and an Inuit way of life that has now vanished from the earth. White's absorbing oral accounts of life in the old north, molded into lively prose by Patrick White, place \u003ci\u003eMountie in Mukluks\u003c\/i\u003e among classics of arctic literature like \u003ci\u003eKabloona\u003c\/i\u003e by Gontran de Poncins and \u003ci\u003ePeople of the Deer\u003c\/i\u003e by Farley Mowat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMountie in Mukluks\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to cause a stir among enthusiasts of police and Arctic lore. As a cop who chose to adopt a Native lifestyle and was honoured with his own Inuit name, Bill White makes a devastating critique of the white settler way of life and its red-coated enforcers who disdained the traditions of the Inuit while simultaneously relying on them for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harbour Publishing Company, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300884037872,"sku":"9781550173529","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550173529_p0.jpg?v=1763751609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550173529","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}