In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. This title provides description of the people and the life of Anaktuvuk Pass. It describes the impact of "progress" on the Nunamiut - the CB radio, weekend nomadism, tourism, the Information Superhighway.

Whether commenting on the effect of this place and its people on her personal life or describing the impact of "progress" on the Nunamiut - the CB radio, weekend nomadism, tourism, the Information Superhighway - her essays offer a unique and deeply evocative picture of an at once disappearing and evolving world. Margaret B. Blackman is a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Brockport.