Arctic circle
Subtitle: birth and rebirth in the land of the caribou
By: by Robert Leonard Reid.
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781567923506
Subjects: Reid, Robert Leonard; Grant's caribou -- Migration -- Yukon; Grant's caribou -- Alaska -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Description: "Every year without fail, caribou from the Yukon and Alaska set off in early April to a small corner of Alaska to give birth to their young. The journey - an ordeal of mountains and blizzards, ravenous wolves, scant forage, and river crossings with ice chunks the size of pickup trucks - is the longest migration of any land animal on earth. Despite these formidable obstacles, the females find their way to the calving grounds on the coast of the Beaufort Sea, deliver their calves in June, and then begin their long journey home."--Pub. desc.