Between 1947 and 1953, photographer Richard Harrington undertook several expeditions to the Canadian Far North. Under extreme conditions, impelled by the need to document a fast-disappearing way of life, he took thousands of photographs of the Inuit hunters and their families with whom he lived and travelled. These photographs are now considered a national treasure, and their negatives reside in the Public Archives of Canada. From among them, Harrington has personally selected some 150 evocative portraits that convey the spirit of the culture and capture the harsh but noble reality of the traditional Inuit way of life—a way of life now gone forever.