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Icebound Summer
Icebound Summer
Author: Sally Carrighar
Most books about the Arctic are concerned with its winter of white desolation and seemingly endless solitude. In Icebound Summer Sally Carrighar recreates in an unforgetable way the mood and events of that brilliant but tenuous season in the Far North when winter briefly relaxes ist frozen grip on the earth, and all living things participate in...  more »
ISBN: 121333
Publication Date: 1953
Pages: 262
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I am deeply moved by all of Carrighar's books. This one is of short stories of the Artic summer migration of some of nature's strangest rituals of mating, birth, death, etc. A scientist who writes with the soul of a poet, the author is probably best for her autobiography HOME tO THE WILDERNESS


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