Somewhere between myths and hard facts you find Nome, poised also between yesterday and tomorrow. Drawing on his background in anthropology and an equal passion for history, Michael Engelhard, through the lens of one pivotal city, surveys the seam that links two neighboring continents.
The region’s legacy of millennia—from mammoths to Cold War monuments, from a spa turned orphanage to cyclist miners and a shaman’s hoard, shines enriched by this writer’s recollections.
Meet the explorers and adventurers, reindeer herders and hustlers, the dancers, drummers, dreamers, warriors, walrus-tusk carvers, and whalers, clergy, foragers, and photographers who shaped a place of conflicting visions as thoroughly as it shaped them.
Wyatt Earp, Roald Amundsen, Edward S. Curtis, and many lesser known, but no less colorful, characters make appearances in a narrative that will entrance even readers with no knowledge of this unique place.
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PolarJournal Team