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A thousand trails home : living with caribou / Seth Kantner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books, [2021]Description: 311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781594859700
  • 1594859701
  • 9781594859724
  • 1594859728
Subject(s):
Contents:
The most important animal -- Minnie Gray -- Good men and bad -- Being lucky -- Hunting on the fall tundra -- Caribou soup -- Caribou companions -- The North Slope -- A new kind of caribou -- Caribou community -- Perspective from a graveyard -- Big changes on a big land -- A windblown trail to the future -- The most political animal -- Living horizons -- Iñupiaq man -- Bounty hunter -- Black Friday -- An old gray table on the land -- Making paniqtuq -- Epilogue: White walkers.
Summary: "Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 599.658 K16 Available 33111010749725
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A Thousand Trails Home is a book of supernal majesty, a book to break and restore your heart. Seth Kantner's devotion to the living pulse and unity of the skein of wonder that is the Alaskan wilderness haunts and inspires me." -- Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman Bestselling, award-winning author of Ordinary Wolves , a debut novel Publisher's Weekly called "a tour de force" Conservation-based story of changing Arctic from an on-the-ground perpective Features full-color photography throughout A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and the larger Arctic region. This story has global relevance as it takes place in one of the largest remaining intact wilderness ecosystems on the planet, ground zero for climate change in the US. This compelling and complex tale revolvesaround the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction--a story that requires a fearless writer with an honest voice and an open heart.

The most important animal -- Minnie Gray -- Good men and bad -- Being lucky -- Hunting on the fall tundra -- Caribou soup -- Caribou companions -- The North Slope -- A new kind of caribou -- Caribou community -- Perspective from a graveyard -- Big changes on a big land -- A windblown trail to the future -- The most political animal -- Living horizons -- Iñupiaq man -- Bounty hunter -- Black Friday -- An old gray table on the land -- Making paniqtuq -- Epilogue: White walkers.

"Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic"-- Provided by publisher.

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