Flight of the Goose
Subtitle: A Story of the Far North
Edition: One edition
Publisher: Far Eastern Press
Published: February 12, 2005
Place of publication: Seattle, Washington, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780967884219
Subjects: Literature & Fiction / General; Fiction / General/historical fiction/social fiction
Genres: literary fiction
First sentence: Once in taimmani, in long ago times, a hunter wandered into a village that kindly took him in.
Description: In a remote Inupiaq Eskimo village in Arctic Alaska, the relationship of a shaman, a traditional Native hunter, and a draft-dodging scientist turns tragic. 
The award-winning novel has themes of ecological and cultural loss, Big Oil, war, gender, healing, and western science versus indigenous knowledge and lifeways. 
For more, go to www.lesleythomas.alaskawriters.com
Notes: Winner of three literary awards, first place. 
Listed as source of note in "Cultural Survival Journal" and "Feminist Studies Journal". 

Recommended by "Shaman's Drum", "First Alaskans Magazine", Sierra Club magazine, book critic John Marshall of "Seattle Post Intelligencer",  "Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts", "Transmutations", and "Sacred Hoop Journal".

Studied at Boston University, University of Alaska, AP science classes in high school, North Slope (Alaska) school district -Inupiaq Values Curriculum, the International School of Shamanism, and by students of Sandra Ingerman.