This book is a collection of poetry written over a 10-year period by a research and management biologist who loves unpeopled places. Most were originally scribbled in mosquito-flecked field notebooks while the author camped on some unnamed backwater slough or wind-swept mountaintop. It is about living and working in the western Interior or in a small coastal town of Southeast. Many of the works selected for this collection are cmically cynical portrayals of life in the Great Unknown, of existing in remote bush villages (and loving it), or of the wildlife (human and otherwise) that share this vast and magnificent wilderness called Alaska.