A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou
About this audiobook
A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic caribou herd, and the larger Arctic region. This story has global relevance as it takes place in one of the largest remaining intact wilderness ecosystems on the planet, ground zero for climate change in the US. This compelling and complex tale revolves around the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction—a story that requires a fearless writer with an honest voice and an open heart.
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About the author
Born and raised in northern Alaska, Seth Kantner’s debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, won a Whiting Award, while A Thousand Trails Home received a Whiting Grant. His other books include an earlier memoir, Shopping for Porcupine, and collection of essays, Swallowed by the Great Land. A commercial fisherman, Kantner divides his time between Paungaqtaugruk and Kotzebue in Northwest Alaska. Learn more at SethKantner.com.
Dan Bittner has narrated dozens of audio books and has starred on stage and on the screen, in movies such as Men in Black, Adventureland, and the Producers: The Movie Musical. He has also appeared onstage as Macbeth Malcolm and Sherlock Holmes in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has narrated popular audio books such as The Eleventh Plague, Hero, and Forever.
