San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A cultural anthropologist settles in a small town on the Pacific Northwest coast and begins to explore, with his retired sled dog, Shungnak, an unnamed nearby island - this becomes an 'exploration of the meaning of place itself, of how we all live in our surroundings not only as visitors and observers but as participants.' Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1990. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. Reading list. 282 pp plus a list of other works by the author. ISBN: 0-865474044.