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Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range
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Author:
Michael Engelhard
Publisher:
Mountaineers Books
Date:
March 19, 2024
A memoir of wilderness, cultural connections, and gritty adventure across northern Alaska
What The Reviewers Say
Arctic Traverse offers both a back country narrative and more than a few bear encounters, but these features mesh seamlessly with natural history notes, digressions on exploration, the words of writers who influenced the author, and the author’s own thoughts about what it is to spend life in untamed lands. It is a wilderness journal, prose poetry, a treatise in philosophy, a primer on northern ecology, and pure magic, all rolled into one seamless volume..
Grand and thoughtful.
This book gorgeously documents the author’s journey through a wild landscape..
Engelhard’s daily accounts are stirring with their descriptions of profound solitude, vast spaces, and endless daylight. There are lyrical, often witty memories of grizzlies, arctic terns, ptarmigans, and lichen.
