Nunaga

'Single, ambitious, self-reliant young man required,' read a Hudson's Bay Company advertisement in the Glasgow Sunday Post one day in 1955; 'must be prepared to live in isolation.' Duncan Pryde, an eighteen-year-old orphan, ex-merchant seaman and disgruntled factory-worker, decided to try his hand at fur trading and emigrated to Canada. In Nunaga, Duncan Pryde tells of his discovery of a remote and primitive way of life to which, astonishingly, he found that he easily adapted. One of his first posts was isolated Perry Island then a refuge of fugitives from the law, where most of the male…