Icebound Summer

by Sally Carrighar

Overview

Sally Carrighar was a prolific writer of stories of the natural world. She has an almost magical ability to bring wild creatures to life with her literary renditions of their world allowing us to get inside that world and live it briefly. In Icebound Summer, we are taken through a brief and intense arctic summer when seemingly frozen and lifeless tundra comes to life. From the arctic fox to the arctic terns overhead, we suddenly realize this is a place of surprisingly abundant life. Icebound Summer is one of the great outdoor classics of wildlife literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307831392
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/17/2013
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

SALLY CARRIGHAR was an American naturalist and the author of eleven books. She was best known for chronicling the lives of wild animals through long periods of patient observation. Born 1898, she passed away in 1985 after a long and celebrated career.

Table of Contents

1.	High Tension	1
2.	Unsentimental Motber	21
3.	The Foolish Fox	45
4.	The Dark Song	69
5.	The Sea Was Their Solace	93
6.	Luck Is Like Weather	119
7.	The Hunters Are the Hunted	147
8.	The Honorable Death of a Rogue	171
9.	The Brave Fawns	193
10.	Love Submerged	221
11.	The Bird and the Hands	241

Editorial Reviews

In this 1953 volume, naturalist Carrighar recounts a summer she spent in the Arctic. Though brief, the season brings great change to the area, converting it into the "polar" opposite of the frozen wasteland that most people imagine as wildlife abounds during the warmer months. This edition is illustrated with numerous black-and-white drawings. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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