One bright April morning a dozen years ago, Clarence Wood and I
stood on the crest of a birch knoll, looking out over the upper
Kobuk valley. Before us, thousands of caribou grazed, dark specks
trailing off into the blue-white distance. Clarence turned, his
weathered Eskimo face split by a wide grin. "Lots," he said
quietly. "Lots." The longer I live here and write, the more I find
myself following Clarence's cue-turning to simpler words, and fewer
of them. My hope, in these twenty-eight brief essays about life in
the Alaskan arctic, is to find words not big enough, but small
enough for a landscape and a place without end. ---- In A Place
Beyond, Nick Jans leads us into his "found" home-the Eskimo village
of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his
powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high
adventure-camping among wolves, traveling with Inupiat hunters,
witnessing the Kobuk River at breakup. The poignancy of a village
funeral comes to life, hordes of mosquitoes whine against a tent, a
grizzly stands etched against the snow-just a sampling of the
images and events rendered in Jans's transparent, visual prose.
Moments of humor are offset by haunting insights, and by thoughtful
reflections on contemporary Inupiaq culture, making A Place Beyond
a book to savor.
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