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Seth Kantner

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Kobuk River, The United States

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Memoir, Fiction, Nonfiction

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SETH KANTNER was born and raised in northern Alaska and has worked as a wildlife photographer, trapper, gardening teacher, adjunct professor and as a wilderness guide for NASA, the National Science Foundation, US Army and other groups. He's a columnist for Anchorage Daily News and his writing and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Orion, Smithsonian and other publications and anthologies. Kantner is the award-winning author of the novel Ordinary Wolves, memoir Shopping for Porcupine, and collection of essays Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches from Alaska’s Frontier. He has been a commercial ﬁsherman in Kotzebue Sound for more than five decades and lives in the Northwest Arctic. ...more

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	Ordinary Wolves 4.10 avg rating — 2,651 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska 4.11 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou 4.23 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier 4.18 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pup and Pokey 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Des loups ordinaires 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Und vom Himmel fielen Sterne 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879

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“I wished I had some heroes, one or two people self-aware enough to be bigger than their smallest hungers”
― Seth Kantner, A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou

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“We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws.”
― Seth Kantner, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska

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