With tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland Canada Siberia Alaska Japan and the polar region told and retold during months-long winter nights Northern Tales gathers together a rich diversity of traditions and cultures spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers. By turns tragic and comic fantastic and earthy frivolous and profound this collection transports the reader to the haunting little-known world of the far North with all its fragile majesty and power.