Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier
Aug 2015 · Mountaineers Books
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“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 the author
Seth Kantner is the author of "Ordinary Wolves" and "Shopping for Porcupine". His work has appeared in the "New York Times", "Outside, "and "Orion", among others. He lives in Kotzebue, Alaska.
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