Comments on: Where to get help identifying this book.

Question: Where to get help identifying this book.

Jackson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:20:48 -0800

Now what? I tried asking MetaFilter without success, so how about suggestions on outdoor / adventure / natural history / other sites where I can ask this question: What book contains this description (and where in the book if possible)? Alaskan / Yukon rivers that freeze on the surface in the winter, then run dry beneath the ice, leaving river tunnels which bears and other animals then inhabit.

By: genug

genug — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:09:53 -0800

This probably came up as an answer to your earlier question, but just in case it didn't: try looking in Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez). Superb homage to all things northern and natural.

I don't remember Lopez writing anything about ice tunnels, but I haven't read it in a few years.

By: zem

zem — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:39:50 -0800

My boyfriend just described such a book scene to me recently. It was definitly by Rick Bass. The Book of Yaak maybe? But that's set in Northern Canada...

By: 6550

6550 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:32:09 -0800

Maybe Michener's Alaska?

By: 6550

6550 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:00:07 -0800

I just talked to my dad. He lives in Anchorage and has read more books on Alaska than anyone I know.

You're looking for Trophies Won and Lost by G.O. Young. According to my dad 'Last chapter (XXIII) "A Promise Fulfilled" describes being beneath the ice of the dried up river.'

By: 6550

6550 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:04:24 -0800

Oops, the full title is Alaskan Yukon Trophies Won and Lost.