Context:

Steve mentions this book about living off the land in Canada, using it to illustrate the point that 'sometimes you can't there's so much you can't even process at all in a lot of times screwed' - the unpredictable nature of subsistence living.

Context:

Steve mentions reading this book about fur trappers in the northwest territories and the boreal forest near the Arctic. He discusses how these trappers would trade in rump fat from deer and use it as currency, using this as an example to discuss the difference between deer tallow and bear lard.

Context:

The speaker mentions 'So there's a book I'm reading right now called The Land of Feast and Famine' while discussing whitefish. The book is described as being about fur trappers who were working around Great Slave Lake in the late twenties/early thirties, and how they relied heavily on whitefish to feed themselves and their sled dogs.