Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Author: Braverman, BlairBrand: Ecco PressEdition: American FirstBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 288Release Date: 05-07-2016model number: 9780062311566Part Number: 9780062311566Details: 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 guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a “tough girl”—a young woman who confronts danger without apology—she slowly developed the strength and resilience the landscape demanded of her. By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube brilliantly recounts Braverman’s adventures in Norway and Alaska. Settling into her new surroundings, Braverman was often terrified that she would lose control of her dog team and crash her sled, or be attacked by a polar bear, or get lost on the tundra. Above