A year in Lapland
Subtitle: guest of the reindeer herders
By: Hugh Beach ; with a new afterword by the author.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Sami (European people) -- Sweden -- Jokkmokk.
Description: "As a young man American Hugh Beach went to live with the Saami reindeer hunters of Swedish Lapland. His personal story of trying to fit into the herding way of life is a rare insider's account of the Saami. In an afterword to this new edition of the book that was originally published in 1993, he revisits his old friends and looks at how Sweden is attempting to balance the conflicting needs of reindeer herders and environmentalists in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: 1993.