Where the Caribou Still Roam (eBook)

In the Barren Lands of Arctic Canada

Guy Mueller (Autor)

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2019 | Second Edition
314 Seiten
Little Sticks Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-9986042-1-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Where the Caribou Still Roam chronicles Mueller's travels in the distant corners of North America. More than an adventure travelogue, Caribou is a weave of personal memoir, environmental and cultural commentary, and a coming of (middle) age story, all them told with warm wit and wisdom from the aft end of a red canoe while paddling the waters and treking though the wilds of northern Canada, including Nunavut, Canada's newest and most northern territory.Mueller shares his concerns about the struggle of our planet and humankind to coexist. He pays tribute to North America's last free-flowing rivers, laments the ruin of others, and takes the reader on a quest to learn about the peoples of the Far North, including the Inuit, a people formerly known as the Eskimos. Mueller tells how these northern hunters, whose Siberian ancestors crossed the Bering Strait thousands of years ago, have persevered amid changes of staggering magnitude. Few have experienced the phenomenon of culture shock more recently or profoundly than the Canadian Inuit.Where the Caribou Still Roam is a story about the author's home continent of North America, but it is also a story about the inseperable searches for both individual and cultural identity, searches that never end but link us all in shared humanity. In the end, we are asked to consider the question of not just Who am I? but Who are we?

Inhalt

About this Book    

Acknowledgments   

Prologue   

Maps    

Part I          Into the Barren Lands

Chapter 1    The Decisions   

Chapter 2    The Questions   

Chapter 3    The Prairie Highways   

Chapter 4    The Boreal Forest  

Chapter 5    The Flight Over the Tree Line   

Part II        Down the Big River

Chapter 6    The Land of the Little Sticks   

Chapter 7    The Singing Hills and the Quiet Stream   

Chapter 8    The Black Flies   

Chapter 9    The Birds Above, the Peat Below   

Chapter 10  The Mists of Time   

Chapter 11  The Last of the Little Sticks   

Chapter 12  The Tuktu   

Photos    

Part III       With the People

Chapter 13  The Whalers   

Chapter 14  The Road to Arviat   

Chapter 15  The Northern Store and the Bay  

Chapter 16  The Walk around Town   

Chapter 17  The Trip Home  

Epilogue   

Afterword   

Selected Bibliography    

End Notes    

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Arctic Canada • Environment • environmental protection • Guy Mueller • Inuit • Nature writing • Where the Caribou Still Roam
• ISBN-10: 0-9986042-1-6 / 0998604216
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9986042-1-3 / 9780998604213