Book description
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north.
By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guideā¦
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1 author picked Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love cold, northern places and dogs, and, if you havenāt already noticed, warts-and-all stories about women finding strength they didnāt know they had in the wilderness. Blair Bravermanās memoir checks all these boxes. As a teenager, she goes to a folk school in the Norwegian Arctic and learns to work with sled dogs, something she later continues as a guide in Alaska. (Braverman is now a professional musher and has run the Iditarod.) The bookās subtitle is Chasing Fear and Finding Home In the Great White North, and Braverman is unsparing in her exploration of fear rooted inā¦
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