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Being Caribou
Karsten Heuer
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Description for Being Caribou
Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
For eons, female members of the Porcupine caribou herd have made the journey from their winter feeding grounds to their summer calving grounds—which happen to lie on vast reserves of oil. They once roamed borderless wilderness; now they trek from Canada, where they’re protected, to the United States, where they are not. In April 2003, wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and filmmaker Leanne Allison set out with the Porcupine caribou herd. Walking along with the animals over four mountain ranges, through hundreds of passes, and across dozens of rivers—a thousand-mile journey altogether, from the Yukon Territory to the Arctic National ... Read more
For eons, female members of the Porcupine caribou herd have made the journey from their winter feeding grounds to their summer calving grounds—which happen to lie on vast reserves of oil. They once roamed borderless wilderness; now they trek from Canada, where they’re protected, to the United States, where they are not. In April 2003, wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and filmmaker Leanne Allison set out with the Porcupine caribou herd. Walking along with the animals over four mountain ranges, through hundreds of passes, and across dozens of rivers—a thousand-mile journey altogether, from the Yukon Territory to the Arctic National ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571313089
SKU
V9781571313089
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
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