SHOPPING FOR PORCUPINE: A Life in Arctic Alaska.
by Kantner, Seth.
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 157131301X
- ISBN 13
- 9781571313010
- Seller
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About This Item
Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. INSCRIBED by Kantner on the half-title page. "His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from family histories to hunting stories, celebrations of people and places to a lament over a majestic wilderness rapidly disappearing." Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Maps, glossary. 240 pp
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71851
- Title
- SHOPPING FOR PORCUPINE: A Life in Arctic Alaska.
- Author
- Kantner, Seth.
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 157131301X
- ISBN 13
- 9781571313010
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions,
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis:
- Date Published
- (2008)
- Keywords
- autobiography, alaska, nature and environment, photography,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic, Antarctic and Inuit/ Eskimo peoples;
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