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Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd (The World As Home)
by Heuer, Karsten
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1571313087
- ISBN 13
- 9781571313089
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About This Item
Milkweed Editions. Softcover. Good. 6x0x9. Several sentences have been underlined; else in Very Good condition. For eons, female members of the Porcupine caribou herd have made the 2,800-mile journey from their winter feeding grounds to their summer calving grounds. They once roamed borderless wilderness; now they trek from Canada, where they're protected, to the United States, where they are not. What's more, beneath the calving grounds lay vast reserves of oil. Determined to convey both the enormity of the caribousâ migration and the delicacy of their habitat, Karsten Heuer and his wife spent their honeymoon following the herd. For five months, they traveled an uncharted course on foot over mountains, through snow, and across frozen rivers, with only three semi-scheduled food drops for support. As with the caribou, Heuer and his wife faced dwindling fat reserves and stalking by ravenous grizzlies and wolves just awakened from hibernation. Both a rousing adventure story and a sober ecological meditation, Being Caribou vividly conveys this magnificent animal's world. 2007 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Winner, 2006 Independent Book Publisher Award Winner in Travel Essays, 2006 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Literature.
Synopsis
Karsten Heuer lives in Dunster, B.C., and works as an independent biologist studying the movements of wolves, lynx, and cougars in the Rockies. He is the author of Walking the Big Wild (2002).
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- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller
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- Title
- Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd (The World As Home)
- Author
- Heuer, Karsten
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1571313087
- ISBN 13
- 9781571313089
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- January 28, 2008
- Size
- 6x0x9
- X weight
- 14 oz
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