Description: "The land of little sticks, the land of bedrock and bush, the land of a million lakes ..". The cliches pegged to Canada's subarctic are as rich and seemingly endless as the landscape they describe. In Reaching North: A Celebration of the Subarctic, environmental consultant Jamie Bastedo looks beyond those cliches into the heart of one of Canada's largest yet least understood regions -- the subarctic wilderness. Follow the complete life cycle of a tiny snow crystal and a bedrock fault a thousand kilometers long. Enter into a frozen beaver lodge in January and the heart of a midsummer fire storm. Ponder the delicate hues of a ravens egg and the riot of color that is the northern lights. Told with a passion for northern people and an exacting eye for detail. Reaching North celebrates a vast northern wilderness, drawing inspiration from its basement rock all the way to the aurora borealis.

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