Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEBorn twenty-nine miles north of the arctic circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley was raised to live the seminomadic life that his Iñupiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years.  In this stirring memoir, he offers us a rare firsthand account of growing up Native Alaskan, and later, in the lower forty-eight, as a fea More »