Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd (The World As Home) - Softcover

Heuer, Karsten

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571313087 ISBN 13: 9781571313089

Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 2008

Synopsis

For eons, female members of the Porcupine caribou herd have made the 2,800-mile journey from their winter feeding grounds to their summer calving grounds. They once roamed borderless wilderness; now they trek from Canada, where they're protected, to the United States, where they are not. What's more, beneath the calving grounds lay vast reserves of oil. Determined to convey both the enormity of the caribous’ migration and the delicacy of their habitat, Karsten Heuer and his wife spent their honeymoon following the herd. For five months, they traveled an uncharted course on foot over mountains, through snow, and across frozen rivers, with only three semi-scheduled food drops for support. As with the caribou, Heuer and his wife faced dwindling fat reserves and stalking by ravenous grizzlies and wolves just awakened from hibernation. Both a rousing adventure story and a sober ecological meditation, Being Caribou vividly conveys this magnificent animal's world.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Winner 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize Phyllis and Don Munday Award

About the Author:

Karsten Heuer lives in Dunster, B.C., and works as an independent biologist studying the movements of wolves, lynx, and cougars in the Rockies. He is the author of Walking the Big Wild (2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1571313087
• ISBN 13: 9781571313089
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240