Dreaming Bears - J. Michael Holloway

Descriere Dreaming Bears - J. Michael Holloway

\nis is the true story of the rare friendship that develops between a young medical student\n \nwith deep roots in the South and an elderly Indian couple in the wilds of northeast Alaska. In\n \n1961, Mike Holloway, his brother Ted, and a college friend set out from South Carolina to\n \nspend the summer hiking in arctic Alaska, intending to live o the land. ey end up in the\n \nhomeland of the Gwich'in - the northernmost Indians in North America.\n \ne young men charter a small plane into the isolated village of Venetie, and are directed to\n \nthe remote cabins of Johnny and Sarah Frank, an elderly Gwich'in couple who lived a thirty-\n \nve mile walk from the village. Johnny was a well-known storyteller and former medicine man.\n \nSarah made their home welcoming with warm, calm kindness.\n \nMike's rich encounters in Gwich'in country deepen his love of wild land and his respect\n \nfor those who depend upon it for their survival. experience alters his life. He becomes the\n \nadopted grandson of Johnny and Sarah, returning to Alaska as a doctor and an advocate for\n \nthe land and its people.\n \n \n\n

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Epicenter Press (wa)

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ENSTK

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9781935347309

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1

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