{"product_id":"9781594859694","title":"Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCLICK HERE to download a free sample from \u003ci\u003eSwallowed by the Great Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know.”\u003c\/i\u003e –Andrea Barrett, author of \u003ci\u003eShip Fever\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage of the Narwhal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    • Nonfiction short stories that pull you into the lives of those living in an otherworldly place\u003cbr\u003e  • Seth Kantner received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top-ten emerging writers\u003cbr\u003e  • Publisher’s Weekly called the author’s 2004 debut novel, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e, \"a tour de force\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    When Seth Kantner’s novel, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e, was published 10 years ago, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous bestseller lists, was critically acclaimed, and won a number of awards.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Seth’s nonfiction second book, the memoir \u003ci\u003eShopping for Porcupine\u003c\/i\u003e, was even more compelling for many readers—the same raw details of a homesteading upbringing, but intensely personal. Now, in \u003ci\u003eSwallowed by the Great Land\u003c\/i\u003e, he once again brings us into his lyrical wilderness existence.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSwallowed by the Great Land\u003c\/i\u003e features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in the author’s own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits—a mosaic of all life on the tundra. Unique characters, village life, wilderness and the larger landscape, a warming Arctic, and hunting and other aspects of subsistence living are all explored in varied yet intimate stories.","brand":"Mountaineers Books, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134453727472,"sku":"9781594859694","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594859694_p0.jpg?v=1763809820","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594859694","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}