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Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd

Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd

          
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2007 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Winner, 2006 Independent Book Publisher Award Winner in Travel Essays, 2006 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Literature

  • Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and filmmaker Leanne Allison spend five months migrating on foot with more than 100,000 caribou
  • Both gripping adventure and stark portrayal of an Arctic ecosystem threatened by oil development
  • Being Caribou, the film created by the author and his wife, won the 2005 Telluride Film Festival "Best Environmental Film Award"
It was a very different kind of honeymoon. In April 2003, wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and his newlywed wife, filmmaker Leanne Allison, set off on an epic adventure: to follow the Porcupine caribou herd as it migrated from its Yukon winter range to its endangered Alaskan calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- and back. What they learned along the way would not only show what was at stake in the decades-old debate about whether or not to drill those same calving grounds for oil, but also what was possible when two people immerse themselves in a wild, intact landscape for five months.

For more than a thousand miles, Heuer and Allison traveled the roadless, trailless, structureless expanse of northern Yukon and Alaska. Both on foot and on skis, they tracked caribou over four mountain ranges, hundreds of passes, and dozens of rivers. To keep up, they knew they would have to move, act, and even think like caribou, skiing and walking with no schedule, no route plan, and no objective other than finding and staying with the wild herd. The result was an adventure that brought them face to face with wolves, hungry grizzly bears, voracious mosquitoes, Arctic blizzards, and the need for an open mind. Physically and mentally exhausted, the young couple found themselves on the cusp of a different way of knowing, and, after months of migrating, walked into a dimension of consciousness neither had experienced before.

Being Caribou is more than a story of grand adventure and an endangered caribou herd. It is a story about the roots of human instinct that are alive in all of us, and how wild landscapes and wild animals hold the power to release them from the avalanche of technology and advertising that typifies the modern civilized world.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781594850103
  • Publisher: Mountaineers Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Mountaineers Books
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 512 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1594850100
  • Publisher Date: 27 Oct 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 237
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
  • Width: 157 mm


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