A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays
In places as remote as Alaska's north slope and as familiar as a midwestern family farm there are tensions that exist between nature and the people who define a given land as home. People drawn to the wilderness are often moved to save it or resist it, depending on their desire for adventure or comfort, tradition or change, sustainability or profit. In sixteen elegant essays, award-winning writer and naturalist John Hildebrand takes a clear-eyed look at how these forces move and change the people and the land. Hildebrand writes of landscapes in dispute: Native Alaskan groups are pitted against each other over oil development, Hmong emigrants…
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- ISBN: 978-0-87351-528-3
- EAN: 9780873515283
- Produktnummer: 1494458
- Verlag: Minnesota Historical Soc Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 205 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.4 cm 426 g
- Gewicht: 426
Über den Autor
John Hildebrand's nonfiction has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, Harrowsmith, and The Missouri Review. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and has recently built a cabin in northern Wisconsin.
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