"In April 1962, clutching a surprise parting gift from his Inuit friends and hunting companions, James Houston flew south to a new life. A few days later (after the unfortunate Montreal incident with the U.S. Immigration officer in the Ladies' Room), he was living and working in the heart of Manhattan."--BOOK JACKET.

"His passage there was eased by his powerful patron Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., the head of Steuben Glass, and by Houghton's wife, his secretary, his butler and his driver. But it was a huge and difficult life-style change, shrewdly captured here in the series of short vignettes that James Houston has used to tell his tale.

Punctuated by his own black-and-white sketches, they follow not only his blundering attempts to take Manhattan, but also the incredible zigzags that his life has taken ever since, including twenty-six trips back to his beloved Arctic."--BOOK JACKET.

"You'll meet a Master Designer with over one hundred valuable glass sculptures to his credit, a New England sheep farmer, a bestselling novelist, a Harlem art teacher, a Pacific salmon fisherman, a Hollywood script-writer, a prizewinning author of seventeen children's books, an Arctic film producer, a man who designed National Geographic's 100th anniversary Award (not to mention the flags of two Canadian territories), and the owner of Whistler's Mother's house."--BOOK JACKET.

"John Houston, of course, is all of those people."--BOOK JACKET.