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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
- Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
- Narrated by: Blair Braverman
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.
Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was 19, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.
By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair's endeavor to become a "tough girl" - someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless. As she ventures into a ruthless arctic landscape, Blair faces down physical exhaustion - while being buried alive in an ice cave and driving a dogsled across the tundra through a whiteout blizzard in order to avoid corrupt police - and grapples with both love and violence as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man's land.
Brilliantly original and bracingly honest, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of the journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.
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- Colin Climie
- 2022-02-04
Exceeded expectations
I went into this expecting one story and received a different one and it was better.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-03-06
Captivating Stories of a Female Adventurer
There's a lot to love about this book. I was captivated by the stories and snapshots of the author's life as an adventurer, writer, and female in the north negotiating the complex unspoken rules and dynamics of a male-dominated environment. As a fellow adventurer and lover of the north, this book perfectly summed up the yearning to explore and push the limits. Blair is an insightful writer that brings the humour and grit of reality into her work in a way that makes you feel like you are right there with her. Blair is hopeful, brave, positive, and perfectly describes the struggles of a female who pushes the limits. Well written, articulate and full of that undeniable allure of the far-flung north.
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- Erika H.
- 2022-06-17
DNF - Dog Abuse
Physical abuse of sled dogs is presented as proper training, including hitting a dog over the head with a shovel. Ugh. I hope that later on in the book the author disavows this, but I won't continue to find out.
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