The snow people - Marie Herbert

When she knew she was going to marry an explorer, Marie Herbert saw herself waiting long months at home for news from distant, uncharted areas...

Within two hears she was living herself in a remote settlement of Polar Eskimos.

Wally Herbert had developed a profound respect for these independent hunters - they call themselves 'Inuit': the real people - when he travelled with them on polar expeditions, and he wanted to help them make a record of their dying culture. Marie and Wally - with their 10-month old baby, Kari - decided to make this record from within: to go alone, without camera crew or film unit, and live with the Eskimos.

Spirited, enthusiastic and sympathetic, Marie Herbert tells the fascinating story of a year of Artic adventure: in doing so she has written an important anthropological account of a vanishing way of life.