Born in 1965 in a sod igloo in Arctic Alaska and raised in the ways of the Inupiaq people Kantner, using a pleasant coversational tone, shares true stories of his own tundra experiences from childhood through adulthood. Kantner testifies to the immense challanges of day-to-day survival in a homemade sod igloo, a structure that was regularly buried by sudden snow squalls in a climate where "frostbite was a way of life." While the chapters, containing pictures taken by the author, read like individual stories it is the entire book’s beauty I found outstanding. A wonderful story for those loving true-life tales and especially those with an interest in nature and Native American life.

posted May 19, 2009 at 6:26PM

This is a wonderful story. It just pulls you along into a life so different from what we experience. Seth Kantner is an outstanding writer. See his Ordinary Wolves as well - it is a novel, but reads like his expanded life.

posted Sep 2, 2009 at 4:31PM

ah looks cool

posted Sep 2, 2009 at 4:43PM

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