Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From

Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier

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â€œSeth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know.â€ â€“Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Voyage of the Narwhal

â€¢ Nonfiction short stories that pull you into the lives of those living in an otherworldly place

â€¢ Seth Kantner received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top-ten emerging writers

â€¢ Publisherâ€™s Weekly called the authorâ€™s 2004 debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, "a tour de force"

When Seth Kantnerâ€™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.

Sethâ€™s nonfiction second book, the memoir Shopping for Porcupine, was even more compelling for many readersâ€•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 authorâ€™s own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabitsâ€•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.
Country USA
Brand Mountaineers Books
Manufacturer Mountaineers Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2015-08-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594859687

Country	USA
Brand	Mountaineers Books
Manufacturer	Mountaineers Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2015-08-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594859687

Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier

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