Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska's Frontier - Couverture souple

Kantner, Seth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 159485968X ISBN 13 : 9781594859687

Editeur : Mountaineers Books, 2015

Synopsis

"Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know." -Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Voyage of the Narwhal

- Nonfiction short stories that pull you into the lives of those living in an otherworldly place
- Seth Kantner received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top-ten emerging writers
- Publisher's Weekly called the author's 2004 debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, "a tour de force"

When Seth Kantner's novel, Ordinary Wolves, was published 10 years ago, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous bestseller lists, was critically acclaimed, and won a number of awards.

Seth's nonfiction second book, the memoir Shopping for Porcupine, was even more compelling for many readers--the same raw details of a homesteading upbringing, but intensely personal. Now, in Swallowed by the Great Land, he once again brings us into his lyrical wilderness existence.

Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in the author's own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits--a mosaic of all life on the tundra. Unique characters, village life, wilderness and the larger landscape, a warming Arctic, and hunting and other aspects of subsistence living are all explored in varied yet intimate stories.

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À propos de l?auteur

Seth Kantner was born and raised in northern Alaska and has worked as a trapper, wilderness guide, wildlife photographer, gardening teacher, and adjunct professor. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Outside, Orion, and Smithsonian. Kantner is the author of the award-winning novel Ordinary Wolves, memoir Shopping for Porcupine, and collection of essays Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska's Frontier. He has been a commercial fisherman in Kotzebue Sound for more than four decades and lives in the Northwest Arctic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mountaineers Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159485968X
• ISBN 13: 9781594859687
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible