First published in two volumes in 1998 and 1999, Bern Will Brown's Arctic Journal has quickly become a publishing milestone, one of the important books about life in Canada's North. It is important because it is written by a long-term resident who first arrived there filled with dreams and aspirations in 1948. This engaging and poignant journal tells the story of a young priest whose understanding of mission work is completely subverted by his experiences of working in the Great Slave Lake region. Arctic Journal is the only first person narrative on the arctic from this time period. Bern Will Brown here captures a unique period of change in the North, that has not been recorded elsewhere or in such an engaging way.