Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Description
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 girla young woman who confronts danger without apologyshe slowly developed the strength and resilience that the North demanded of her. Weaving together fast-paced adventure writing, ethnographic journalism, and elegantly wrought reflections on identity, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of Bravermans journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape as beautiful as it is unforgiving.
