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Focuses on the Canadian obsession with the North, which informs its literature and criticisms alike. Canadian literature's resistance to Romanticism; Reference to Wiebe's work `A Discovery of Strangers'; Technologies often brought to the fore in accounts of the North; Reason why northern expeditions continually emphasize technology.

Explores the intertextuality of ethnographic and literary accounts of the Canadian north. Role of ethnography as a source of cultural information and a model of representational practice; Postmodern turn in ethnography; Objective style of ethnographic realism; Contemporary theories of new and postmodern ethnography; Effect of representing northern inhabitants in terms of survival.