Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Journey Into the Interior of Alaska

The reader of this book takes up an account of a long journey, a physical and metaphysical journey, into a country of Imagination. That country is Alaska. So begins this extraordinary story of a young womans experiences among Athabaskan Indians in the interior of Alaska. A poet recently returned from the literary salons of Paris, the author takes a job teaching in a remote region of Alaska. As she comes to know the region and its peoplesas she learns to see the visible and invisible world around hershe finds herself more and more the student rather than the teacher. A true story on an epic scale, told with a relentless realism that portrays Alaska and its people without romanticizing them, charged with a unique and informed intelligence, Narrow Road to the Deep North is the moving story of a womans path to knowledge in a remote and austere land.