With this 1881 publication, Heinrich Klutschak (1847 90), a German native of Prague, produced one of the first comprehensive accounts of Inuit life. In the years 1878 80 the artist and writer was part of an expedition, led by the American soldier Frederick Schwatka, which travelled in the Canadian Arctic. This undertaking was but one of many that sought to discover what had happened during the last expedition of the British explorer Sir John Franklin in the 1840s. As the title of the work indicates, Klutschak and his fellow expedition members attempted to live as fully as possible in the...