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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great Whi
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- 9780062311573
- Book Title
- Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube : Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Polar Regions, Cultural Heritage, Outdoor Skills, Adventurers & Explorers, General, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, WA)
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North. Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair's endeavor to become a "tough girl"--someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures into a ruthless arctic landscape, Blair faces down physical exhaustion--being buried alive in an ice cave, and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police--and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man's land. Brilliantly original and bracingly honest, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of the journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062311573
ISBN-13
9780062311573
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228614144
Product Key Features
Book Title
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube : Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Polar Regions, Cultural Heritage, Outdoor Skills, Adventurers & Explorers, General, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, WA)
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
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An extraordinary debut, Ice Cube takes us to the coldest place on earth only to reveal its author's warm, witty, invincible heart., Braverman has written a brilliant troubling of travel writing, of the exotic and the familiar and even of the self that survives to tell the tale. An astonishing debut., "Readers will likely find that "ice cubes" are not the point, but rather the risky choices made while growing up and the struggles faced along the way.", Her descriptions of the natural world are arresting, and powerfully convey her conviction that 'how to be cold' means 'how to live.', Stunning. . . . Braverman exposes all of her desires, insecurities and triumphs in a compulsively readable tangle of raw nerves, brutal honesty, and biting wit. She allows room for not just her inner strength, but her doubts and fears, striking a balance that brings her story into vivid focus., The next must-read for those who were fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and for those with a daring spirit or those hoping to have more of one., Blair Braverman has a poet's heart. She keeps it in a rawhide pouch on her dogsled. Tough, bracing, visionary and epic, her book also manages to be tender and beautiful. You must read it., The best work of non-fiction I've read in 2016, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube is this year's H is For Hawk ., A delicate meditation from the frontiers of feminism, forged by the stark landscapes that prompted it. Braverman is a highly original talent., A gripping coming-of-age memoir. Braverman captures brilliantly the challenges and ecstasies of life as a young woman in the frigid, male-dominated worlds of Norway and Alaska. A wonderful book about deep friendships-with humans, dogs and the icy north itself., This summer, readers have their pick of female narrators traversing both internal and external terrain. But few stand out as much as Blair Braverman's Arctic memoir, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube., An award for straightforward storytelling should be named after [Braverman]. . . a fascinating read. . . . a strange, remarkable memoir., [Blair's] external experiences are extraordinary, but it's what happens internally that both sets this memoir apart and gives it universal resonance. Indelible characters, adventurous spirit, and acute psychological insight combine in this multilayered debut., Like a 21st-century feminist reincarnation of Jack London, Braverman has crafted an eloquent and gripping tale of self-knowledge that leads through communion with ice and sea, dogs and sleds, and finds her, finally, at home amid the complex kindness of other human beings., Compulsively readable. . . . Braverman's debut beautifully portrays what it's like to be a woman in an unwelcoming climate., Braverman left her California home at 18 to learn dog sledding in Norway. As she chronicles in this bold adventure memoir, she's returned again and again to the coldest places on earth in search of a fearlessness frequently off-limits to women., As a storyteller and a stylist, Braverman is remarkably skilled, with a keen sense of visceral detail that borders on sublime. Her ability to draw readers into heart-pounding action sequences is what makes the book so courageous and original as a travel narrative and a memoir of self-discovery., Stunning. . . . We feel, acutely, the moments and images Braverman shares with us, but we also take in the years of perspective, of carefully honed wisdom, that she brings to them. Braverman's descriptions are stippled with terror and beauty., Blair Braverman writes beautifully and baldly about the struggle to trust ourselves, especially as we're undermined by those who hope we won't. Braverman will stun you with the incredible events of her young life and her fierce courage., a lyrical, understated writer. . . . [an] unusual memoir [that] will resonate with anyone who has ever chased a dream through a thicket of difficulty., An enchanting memoir of exploration and adventure, self-discovery and self-doubt. . . . Ice Cube hugs everything tight, turning experiences exotic and fearsome into moments tenderly funny and pure., This book could be described in a dozen different ways, but no description would get at root of this book, which is about gender and violence and belonging, but most of all about being human and learning to live-and trust oneself-in world where things aren't always safe., If finishing Wild left a hole in your heart, we're willing to bet that Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube might be just the thing., . . . a richly insightful work whose bold but delicately delivered honesty has much to teach us. . . . Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube is gorgeous, moving and universally resonant. Most of all, it's important., Remarkable. . . . It's amazing to watch as she develops backbone and grit, determined not to let anyone or anything stand between her and the icy landscape she loves so much.
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