Flight of the Goose

By Lesley Thomas

Subjects: Arctic, species loss, feminism, birds, traditional knowledge, Inupiat, climate change, anthropology, deep ecology, indigenous, Inuit, Western science, shaman, shamanism, Inupiaq Eskimo, Bering Strait, military draft, Villages, Ecologists, slavery, conscientious objection, Shamanism, Fiction, draft-dodger, oil drilling, Women shamans, gender roles, Culture conflict, child abuse, ornithology, sustainability, cultural survival, Big Oil

Description: A coming-of-age story, a cross cultural love story, an eco-novel with deep ecology, and the story of the initiation of a young shaman woman in the contemporary Alaskan Arctic.