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A 4,000-mile Alaskan journey, four centuries of Black nature poetry, and a grizzly’s last season
“Inside Passage: Row north along the Pacific coastline. Start early spring. Pat must finish boats. Scoters feed on the herring spawn. Hummingbirds cruise north… Brooks Range: 1,000 mile traverse. Maps hang crooked on the wall—Pat claims he’s not going crazy.” Caroline Van Hemert’s gentle observations can lead you to forget she and her husband are backcountry badasses, up until they’re struggling against a wild river current and you remember they’re venturing 4,000 miles from Bellingham, Washington, to Kotzebue, Alaska, by way of foot, rowboat, ski, and packraft. Van Hemert, a bird biologist, reminds us that big, epic treks are an elemental part of nature: for many species, there is no question of migration—it is instinct, and to
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