WELCOME TO THE GODDAMN ICE CUBE: CHASING FEAR AND FINDING HOME IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
Book ID/图书代码： 00500016B88591
English Summary/英文概要： Blair Braverman is a former wilderness guide and, currently, a competitive dogsledder. She spent several years researching Arctic history, curating ethnographic museum exhibits for the Jensen Arctic Museum in Oregon, conducting interviews about Arctic culture and the philosophy behind folk schools. While piecing together this beautiful memoir, she offers an intimate look into the strange and beautiful world of a place frozen in time.
Blair fell in love with the North at an early age: by the time she was 19, she had left her home in California and moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, then worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to make a life for herself in the North, she slowly developed the strength and resilience the landscape demanded of her.
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—being buried alive in an ice cave, driving a dogsled across the tundra through a white-out blizzard in an escape from the Sami 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 perils of the journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving. She owns 22 dogs of her own, all in training for the Iditarod next year.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Blair Braverman原本从事荒野导游工作，目前她是个颇有竞争力的狗拉雪橇训练员。她花了几年时间研究北极的历史，为俄勒冈的Jensen北极博物馆策划过有关人种的展览，进行过关于北极文化和民间学校背后哲学的采访。通过这本文字优美的回忆录，她为读者提供了一个机会亲密接触这个陌生而美丽的世界。
Blair很早就爱上了北极，19岁时就离开加利福尼亚的家，搬到挪威学习如何驾驶狗拉雪橇，然后前往阿拉斯加的冰川担任导游。立志生活在北方的她逐渐习得了这样的生活所需的力量和坚韧。
本书通过有趣的、发人深思的、大胆的、而又满怀柔情的言论，展现了她如何成为一个女孩如何直面各种危险，并努力变得无所畏惧。
在无情的北极，Blair曾经脸朝下、精疲力尽地被埋在一个冰洞里，她也曾经驾着狗拉雪橇穿越冰原上的暴风雪逃脱Sami警方的追踪，她想要讲述自己作为一个女孩子如何应对这个男人的世界提出的种种复杂要求。本书的内容或许是你从未见过的，而且十分坦诚。Blair本人现已拥有22条狗，正在为明年的Iditarod河之行受训。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：First serial was published in The Atavist:
https://read.atavist.com/welcome-to-dog-world
and broadcast on This American Life:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/558/game-face
About the Author/作者介绍： Blair Braverman毕业于爱荷华大学的非虚构写作培训班。她是蓝山中心以及MacDowell Colony的常驻成员，有关她工作的描述曾出现在包括Buzzfeed、 The Atavist、The Best Women’s Travel Writing等多本刊物上。
She graduated from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, where she was also an Arts Fellow. She has been a resident fellow at Blue Mountain Center and the MacDowell Colony and her work has appeared in Buzzfeed, The Atavist, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Orion, AGNI, High Country News, Waging Nonviolence, and on This American Life.
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