Gordon, Kayy; Lois Neely — Arctic Ablaze

Burlington, ON, Canada Welch Publishing Company First printing pp. 175. 8vo. Replete with many black and white, maps, photographs, illustrations et al. Signed and inscribed by Kayy to the title page. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. The author recounts her work as a Christian missionary in Canada's northern frontier amongst the Inuit. "Kaye Gordon was only 22-years old when she left the west coast city of Vancouver determined to light a fire for God in the frozen waters of Canada's Arctic. In the 34 years since she has slept in Eskimo igloos, walked in their mukluks, eaten their muktuk, and bounced behind a dog team or on a jolting snowmobile over hundreds of miles of jagged ice. Arctic Ablaze recounts the exploits of the maturing Eskimo church.