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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Blair BravermanPublish date:2017-03-21Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780062311573ISBN-10:62311573UPC:9780062311573Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Adventurers & Explorers, Polar Regions, Outdoor SkillsSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCM83KZN22

A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.

Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.

By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair's endeavor to become a "tough girl"--someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures into a ruthless arctic landscape, Blair faces down physical exhaustion--being buried alive in an ice cave, and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police--and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man's land.

Brilliantly original and bracingly honest, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of the journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780062311573ISBN-10:62311573UPC:9780062311573Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Adventurers & Explorers, Polar Regions, Outdoor SkillsSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCM83KZN22
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BLAIR BRAVERMAN is a writer, dogsledder, and adventurer who uses innovative storytelling to make the outdoors accessible. She is the author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, a contributing editor to Outside magazine, and a contributor to The New York Times, Vogue, This American Life, and elsewhere. She lives in the northwoods with her husband, Quince Mountain, and their team of sled dogs.

Publisher: Ecco Press

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Blair Braverman

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