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by Stef Penney
Published Mar 2008
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by Galsan Tschinag
Published Nov 2007
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by Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsAs spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm. His translucent prose is a sparkling and moving record of a bygone way of life.
by Marla Cone
Published Apr 2006
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by Seth Kantner
Published Aug 2005
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by John Balzar
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsIn the tradition of Into The Wild, here is a story of daring and determination in one of nature's harshest, loneliest, and most beautiful places.
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