Being Caribou
Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
by Karsten Heuer
It was a honeymoon like no other when Karsten Heuer and his new bride, Leanne Allison, on skis and foot joined 123,000 caribou for a five-month journey through the Arctic. The caribou were headed from their Yukon winter range to their Alaskan calving grounds—a patch of land where the oil industry wants to drill. This thousand-miles-long test of human endurance opened a gateway to a level of consciousness and possibility forgotten by the modern world.
Karsten Heuer
Author's Bio:Karsten Heuer is a wildlife biologist, park warden, and author who, for the past decade, has conducted firsthand research on some of North America’s most endangered wildlife. He is the recipient of the Wilburforce Conservation Leadership Award and a Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award (2007). He lives in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.
Awards:Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Prize, 2007
Best Outdoor Literature, U.S. National Outdoor Book of the Year, 2006
Best Travel Book, Independent Press Award
Grand Prize, Banff International Mountain Book Festival
Quotes:“Being Caribou is one of the best, most evocative, and hard hitting accounts of man’s inhumanity toward life, and of the need for reconciliation between man and the rest of animate creation, I have ever encountered.” Farley Mowat
“A record of sheer courage, stamina, and stubbornness—to find and follow on foot, North America’s counterpart to Africa's wildebeest migration.” David Suzuki
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Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 107
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Size: 5 x 9
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9781571313089
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