The Stars, the Snow, the Fire Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness

by Haines, John Meade

• ISBN13: 9781555973063
• ISBN10: 155597306X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

In this wilderness classic, the quintessential Alaskan frontiersman relates his experiences from over twenty years as a hoemsteader. As New York Newsday has said of his work, "If Alaska had not existed, Haines might well have invented it.

Table of Contents

Snow	3	(3)
Of Traps and Snares	6	(24)
Stories We Listened To	30	(13)
Out of the Shadows	43	(11)
Burning a Porcupine	54	(4)
Three Days	58	(22)
Spring	80	(5)
Other Days	85	(4)
Wolves	89	(4)
Lost	93	(4)
The Sack of Bones	97	(7)
Mudding Up	104	(7)
Dusk	111	(7)
Death Is a Meadowlark	118	(8)
Ice	126	(6)
With an Axe and an Auger	132	(17)
Shadows	149	(12)
Richardson: The Dream	161