Blair Braverman

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North -- Blair Braverman, Paperback

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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.



Author: Blair Braverman
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/21/2017
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780062311573

Product Tags:

Adventurers & Explorers, Alaska - Description and travel, Biography & Autobiography, Blair Braverman, Ecco Press, Outdoor Skills, Paperback, Polar Regions, Sports & Recreation, Travel

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