Epistemologist, adventurer and Alaskan homesteader Sam Wright shares what his world was like from his days as a young boy growing up in a mining town in New Mexico to his life in a remote location north of the Arctic Circle. His letters to future generations, filled with personal anecdotes and reflections, invite every reader to ponder the changes in our world and our society - both those that have occurred in the past century and those that will occur in the next.