Thunder on the Tundra: Football Above the Arctic Circle

This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team. Against long odds the Whalers had to practice and play in extreme conditions and travel hundreds of miles from home when they went on the "road," flying for each game.They ended their first season victorious, while maintaining their subsistence hunter-gather culture.

Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780882407425
ISBN10: 0882407422
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Football
- Sports & Recreation | History