SC-Four Seasons North

Billie Wright. Random House (NY), $19.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-87156-555-6

Wright and her husband choose to live in the manner of the Nunamiut Eskimos, inhabiting an isolated cabin they built near the Arctic Circle; this account describes one year of their survival in the wilderness. ``Enthralling,'' PW said, noting ``the Wrights's plea for the preservation of the little wilderness we have left is implicit in the record.'' (Mar.)

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