
The first page of my opening chapter in The Best Travel Writing 2009.
You can read the whole thing in the book, or in this PDF file. I've inverted the scans so that the type is white on black; for me, it fits the mood.
Imm-man-YAR-OK: n. Inupiat (polar Alaskan native) word for the 'Little People', spirits manifested as inexplicable lights you see on the tundra in polar winter; lights that you mustn't follow, lest they lead you into danger...
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