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Jul 14, 2012 03:14PM
Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd (setting)
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I totally owned that book once. I gave it away before I had a chance to read it, though.
Absolutely!I just spotted The Mad Trapper in the Saskatchewan list (author from Sask), but figured I should add it here, too, because the RCMP chase was through the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
I stopped in at one of our locally-owned bookstores today and asked what fiction she would recommend for us. Here is a short list of highlights:Close to Spider Man & The Slow Fix, both include short stories set in the Yukon by Ivan E Coyote, a Yukon-born author.
From Ice to Ashes by Jessica Simon, a Yukon (and goodreads!) author.
Gold Rush Orphan
Gold Digger, Gold Fever, and Gold Mountain, all of which are historical mystery novels set in Dawson City, Yukon, written by Vicki Delany (Ontario author.)
The New North: Being the Some Account of a Woman's Journey Through Canada to the Arctic by Agnes Deans CameronThis is a book that was published in 1909, and therefore is hard to track down in the original. There are several reprints of the book, preservations of the original, which include blurred pages or missing text, apparently, according to all the disclaimers. The good news is that, rather than try to track down such an antiquated and rare book, or any of its reprints, it is available free on Project Gutenberg
I picked up a copy of Bad Latitudes by Al Pope today on the cheap. If anyone is interested in a bookring for it, I can start a thread over in Book Sharing.
After my cruise to Alaska last week, I'm keenly interested in the gold rush and the hardships endured by those people coming up through the Yukon into Alaska in search of gold. I'm going to check your recommendations out, GateGypsy. Thanks so much.
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It was awesome! I want to go back to Alaska and stay a bit longer in the ports we stopped at - Juneau, Ketchican, and Skagway. I'd like to take my grandson with me to see the whales in the wild. He wants to be a marine biologist.
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He is 13. I talked with him on the phone last night and he regretted not being able to see the whales but said that there will be another time that we can go on a trip together. I was surprised at how knowledgeable he is about whales... but then I shouldn't be. A couple of years ago, we walked through his classroom at the school (he would have been in grade 5) and the books he had on his desk were quite mature books compared to the kids around him.
