Where to get help identifying this book.

March 7, 2007 5:20 PM

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.
posted by Jackson to Science & Nature (5 answers total)

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.
posted by genug at 6:09 PM on March 7, 2007

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...
posted by zem at 6:39 PM on March 7, 2007

Maybe Michener's Alaska?
posted by 6550 at 8:32 PM on March 7, 2007

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.'
posted by 6550 at 6:00 PM on March 8, 2007

Oops, the full title is Alaskan Yukon Trophies Won and Lost.
posted by 6550 at 6:04 PM on March 8, 2007