Unknown Labrador refers to the southeast coast of Labrador. This book fulfils the author's to the people of southeastern Labrador to write a book about their history and way of life (p. vii). This promise is critical to the understanding and evaluation of the book, which at times seems to narrate detail that is perplexing to an outsider, even one who is reasonably well-acquainted with Newfoundland culture and history. Nonetheless, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of peoples and cultures on the periphery of the world economic system. For much of its history, southeastern Labrador has been the colony of a colony. The author points out that the study breaks new ground on a number of substantive issues: the role of Inuit enclaves in early European settlement; the relationship of early permanent settlement to the American fishery; the account of the nineteenth-century Settler adaptation and the reasons behind its disruption during this century; the critical account of the impact of the Grenfell Mission, The Labrador Development Company and the construction of military bases on Settler communities (p. 6). This review will focus on those aspects of the book that are particularly relevant to the general anthropological reader.The area comprises the coastal region south of Hamilton Inlet (at the head of which is Goose Bay) running to the entrance of the Strait of Belle Isle, which separates Newfoundland from Labrador. The ethnic composition of the region is European, primarily English, Inuit and Innu (formerly called Montagnais-Naskapi) and their descendants. Especially important is the racial and ethnical mixture that characterizes the region and its history.With respect to the Inuit, Kennedy carefully documents the presence of their enclaves in the region in the late 18th and early 19th century. Based on archaeological and historical data, he believes that these enclaves were not established until the final decades of the eighteenth (p. 84). This care is necessary because one is dealing with the extreme southern limit of Inuit culture. In addition to purely voluntary migration, he suggests that the rounding Inuit population may have been people banished from Moravian missions further north, or the descendants of northern Inuit middlemen traders who settled in the region. Further, it is clear from the documentary sources that in the 18th century the Inuit were conducting predatory raids on Europeans in the region. This is in marked contrast to the reported nature of Inuit/White relations in most other areas.The settlement of the region involves a transition from temporary occupation of the region for trading, and then exploitation of the local fishery, and finally to the establishment of a resident population. In the middle period there was a long and complex interaction between those who permanently settled on the coast, i.e., settlers, and the various transient populations of American, French and Newfoundland fishers. In particular, it is argued that Americans played a crucial role in facilitating settlement in the region. The author takes special care to differentiate the southeast Labrador pattern from the Newfoundland pattern. He notes that scholars of early settlement [in Newfoundland] emphasise two key points... that merchants voluntarily began supplying former servants with supplies, on credit, and b) the timing of permanent settlement depended on the availability of women as wives for potential (p. 73). Three factors serve to differentiate southeast Labrador from the Newfoundland situation: a) the disorder and competition which characterize the early British era; b) the transient trade, especially with the American traders; and c) the presence of Inuit women as potential spouses (p. 74).The settlers established a subsistence pattern that the author labels seasonal transhumance, a term usually applied to pastoral societies. …