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Author:
Kantner, Seth, 1965- author.
Title:
A thousand trails home : living with caribou / Seth Kantner.
Publisher:
Mountaineers Books,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
Subject:
Kantner, Seth,--1965---Travel--Northwest Arctic Borough.--Northwest Arctic Borough.
Caribou--Northwest Arctic Borough.--Northwest Arctic Borough.
Caribou hunting--Northwest Arctic Borough.--Northwest Arctic Borough.
Human-animal relationships--Northwest Arctic Borough.--Northwest Arctic Borough.
Big game hunters--Alaska--Biography.
Northwest Arctic Borough (Alaska)--Description and travel.
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.
ISBN:
1594859728
9781594859724
1594859701
9781594859700
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1245957059
LCCN:
2021008622
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

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