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Winter Sign
Jim Dale Huot-Vickery
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Description for Winter Sign
paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
A journey into the soul of the coldest season.
The locus of Jim dale Huot-Vickery’s life is a remote cabin in the northern wilderness of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters region. More often than not, it is winter here, a fierce, beautiful season that dominates all living things with its relentless cold grip. This is the inspiration for Winter Sign, the profound story of fifteen years of surviving the seven-month-long odyssey of winter in the far north.
“We know parkas, mukluks, mittens, snowshoes, skis, and sled dogs,” Huot-Vickery writes. “Snow sparkles gold on cloudless winter mornings. There are shell-pink sunsets. Stars glimmer among northern ... Read moreAgainst this backdrop, Huot-Vickery writes authoritatively on the ecology of the area and philosophically about winter’s probing of the human spirit. He explores the world of nature and the constant struggle for survival, including his own interactions with white-tailed deer and wolves.Huot-Vickery circles around paradoxes and themes that invade the land and his life: nature’s beauty and bounty pitted against danger and death; the challenge of self-reliance and the depths of isolation; loss and restoration. And always there is the unrelenting winter, filled with wonder and terror. At turns poignant and harrowing, Winter Sign explores the solitude of the dark night of the soul, and the sustenance and inspiration winter’s wild beauty provides. ISBN 0-8166-2969-2 Paper $15.95192 pages 5 x 8 NovemberTranslation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816629695
SKU
V9780816629695
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About Jim Dale Huot-Vickery
Jim dale Huot-Vickery is a writer living near Ely, Minnesota. He is the author of Wilderness Visionaries (1986) and Open Spaces (1991).
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