Flight of the Goose

By Lesley Thomas

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

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.