(Hardcover - English - 9781571313010)
strong Growing up in the Arctic, pragmatic, simple questions had useful answers. And frostbite was a way of life. In Shopping for Porcupine , Seth Kantner returns to the setting of his debut novel, Ordinary Wolves , with a fascinating account of life on North America's last frontier. strong In these essays and photographs, Kantner chronicles the "by-hand times so recently passed," watching through the lens of his life the transformation of the Arctic as mainstream America moves relentlessly north. His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to this world in the 1950s and ends with Kantner, a grown man, settled in the same landscape. "My m ..