I just finished reading "The Story of Comock the Eskimo" by Robert Flaherty, the filmmaker that made "Nanook of the North."
It's a short but good read about the life of an Eskimo hunter living in northeastern Hudson Bay in the 1902-1912 timeframe. There is refreshingly little dialogue, emotions or analysis; it's just a straight account of the way it was living in the sub-Arctic without modern conveniences like guns, textiles, snowmobiles, aluminum boats and diesel stoves.
My feet are going to be warm this winter.