James A. Houston

• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
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In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness tha...

• Nov-1990
• / General Fiction
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“In the frozen isolation of the far North, young Akavak, with his grandfather, sets off on a dangerous journey to visit his great-uncle’s home. Both seem destined to die except that their courage and determination lead them to their goal.”-Book...

• May-1992
• / General Fiction
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• May-1993
• / General Fiction
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An epic novel of rapture and survival. SHE BELONGED TO HER CAPTORS NOW... Sarah Wells is only seventeen when she is violently abducted by marauding Indians and taken to live as a slave amidst the savage splendor of a proud race. This is the st...

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1997
• / Literary
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In the 1870s whaling was North America’s biggest business. Successful voyages south, to the warm waters of Melville’s great white whale, or north, to the Arctic, brought back ships laden with the whale oil that lit the lamps of the civilized worl...

• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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James Houston made his first journey to the Canadian Arctic in 1948 in search of a new land to paint. There he found a warm, friendly people living in a vast, cold, hauntingly beautiful world. He lived with the Inuit and Indian people in the Arctic ...

• / Fantasy
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