The locus of Jim dale Huot-Vickery's life is a remote cabin in the
northern wilderness of Minnesota's Boundary Waters region. More
often than not, it is winter here, a fierce, beautiful season that
dominates all living things with its relentless cold grip. This is
the inspiration for Winter Sign, the profound story of fifteen
years of surviving the seven-month-long odyssey of winter in the
far north.
"We know parkas, mukluks, mittens, snowshoes, skis, and sled
dogs", Huot-Vickery writes. "Snow sparkles gold on cloudless winter
mornings. There are shell-pink sunsets. Stars glimmer among
northern lights. For those of us who know this land, however,
beauty is only part of the winter story. There are those long
nights, those we rarely speak about, that surely and irrevocably
shift the soul".
Against this backdrop, Huot-Vickery writes authoritatively on
the ecology of the area, poetically about the beauty of snow, and
philosophically about winter's probing of the human spirit. He
explores the world of nature and the constant struggle for
survival, including his own interactions with white-tailed deer and
wolves.
Huot-Vickery circles around paradoxes and themes that invade the
land and his life: nature's beauty and bounty pitted against danger
and death; the challenge of self-reliance and the depths of
isolation; loss and restoration.
And always there is the unrelenting winter, filled with wonder
and terror. At turns poignant and harrowing, Winter Sign explores
the solitude of the dark night of the soul, and the sustenance and
inspiration winter's wild beauty provides.9
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