In "Exploring the Frozen North," Pierre Berton documents the amazing lives of the men and women who mapped the Arctic at great personal cost. Berton tells the stories of the explorers, but he does not ignore the stories of those people living in the Arctic-the Inuit. Berton often remarks that if only the English and Americans had learned more about living in the far north from the Inuit people, they may have had better luck in their explorations.

Retold in accurate detail, these are stories of the triumphs and the hardships of early expeditions to the Canadian Arctic.