Kantner was born in a sod igloo on the Kobuk River to homesteading parents and grew up hunting and trapping among Iñupiaq neighbors in northwest Alaska. This is memoir in photographs and short essays — his father’s pictures and his own — covering that childhood and what has happened to the country since: Snowmobiles, then satellite dishes, then oil money, then caribou herds and river ice behaving differently. He’s not romantic about subsistence living and he’s not sentimental about what replaced it. The photographs of his family’s life at the edge are a great reason to own it.
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