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Northland : a 4,000-mile journey along America's forgotten border / Porter Fox.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393248852 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xviii, 247 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The dawnland -- The sweet-water seas -- Boundary waters -- Fires -- The medicine line. |
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- Baker & Taylor
The author draws on three years of exploration through the borderlands between Maine and Washington State to trace the northern border's rich and pivotal history, industries, and famous contributors. - Baker & Taylor
The author of Deep draws on three years of exploration through the borderlands between Maine and Washington State to trace the northern border's rich and pivotal history, industries and famous contributors. - Book News
In this descriptive narrative for general readers and others, travel writer Porter Fox, editor of the online travel magazine Nowhere, details his three-year, 4,000-mile journey along the border of America and Canada, a region known as the northland. As he travels by car, canoe, foot, and freight train from Lubec, Maine, to Vancouver, Washington, he talks with border guards, Indian activists, militia leaders, and ordinary citizens, and often retraces the journeys of historical expeditions and fur traders. In addition, he explores the natural environments of the region, especially freshwater waterways and wetlands, and investigates the origins of various industries of the region, especially oil extraction, and their environmental impact. B&w maps are included. The authorâs writing has appeared in the New York Times, Outside magazine, and National Geographic Adventure. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - WW Norton
Americaâs northern border is the worldâs longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was Americaâs primary border for centuriesâmuch of the early history of the United States took place thereâand to the tens of millions who live and work near the line, the region even has its own name: the northland.NorthlandFox, who grew up the son of a boat-builder in Maineâs northland, packs his narrative with colorful characters (Captain Meriwether Lewis, railroad tycoon James J. Hill, Chief Red Cloud of the Lakota Sioux) and extraordinary landscapes (Glacier National Park, the Northwest Angle, Washingtonâs North Cascades). He weaves in his encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland today, wracked by climate change, water wars, oil booms, and border security.
