Arctic Circle [Signed]

Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, 2010. Stated First Edition. Octavo quarter bound in blue cloth with blue boards, gilt titles; dust jacket; 200 pp, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm Near fine(+) in near fine dust jacket; boards are smooth and clean; slight bumping to top of spine and lower corner; pages crisp; binding tight; dust jacket shows closed tear to back corner, mild wrinkling to upper corner, else clean and sharp. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781567923506

Signed by author to title page | "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."--Publisher