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Shopping for Porcupine A Life in Arctic Alaska

Seth Kantner

Growing up in the Arctic, pragmatic, simple questions had useful answers. And frostbite was a way of life. In In these essays and photographs, Kantner chronicles the “by-hand times so recently passed,” watching through the lens of his life the transformation of the Arctic as mainstream America move...

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The MeatEater Podcast

Kantner's second book, a memoir that explored his unique upbringing in a sod igloo and his experiences navigating the differences between his isolated childhood and the "white world."

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People wanted a memoir and I didn't realize it was weird to grow up in a sod igloo and be sort of separated from people.

— Episode: Ep. 348: Eating Walrus and Whale with An...

Episode: Ep. 348: Eating Walrus and Whale with An Igloo Boy

Kantner's second book, a memoir that explored his unique upbringing in a sod igloo and his experiences navigating the differences between his isolated childhood and the "white world."

"

People wanted a memoir and I didn't realize it was weird to grow up in a sod igloo and be sort of separated from people.

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