Kantner’s collected dispatches — columns, essays, and reportage from northwest Alaska written over a couple of decades. Wolves and caribou and the biologists counting them, the economics of a village where a gallon of gas costs what it does, snow that arrives late, a bear at the cabin, tourists, the state legislature, and his own daughter growing up in a place unrecognizable from his own childhood there. Shorter and looser than his other books, which suits him. He’s one of the very few writing Alaska from the inside rather than from a season.
Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska’s Frontier