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

Kantner, Seth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159485968X ISBN 13: 9781594859687

Publisher: 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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159485968X
• ISBN 13: 9781594859687
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192