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    Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
    Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
    Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
    Audiobook9 hours

    Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

    Written by Porter Fox

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. Travel writer Porter Fox spent two years exploring its length by canoe, freighter, and car-and in Northland, he delivers the little-known history of the region and a riveting account of his travels. Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain's adventures; recounts the rise and fall of the iron, wheat, and timber industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; and tracks America's fur traders through the Boundary Waters. Northland is full of colorful characters (railroad tycoon James J. Hill, Chief Red Cloud of the Lakota Sioux, Captain Meriwether Lewis) and extraordinary landscapes (Glacier National Park, the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Montana's Medicine Line country). Throughout, Fox weaves in his encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland wracked by climate change, water wars, and heightened border security.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJul 31, 2018
    ISBN9781684412778
    Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

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    • 5/5
      Interesting mix of travelogue and history of the border between the US and Canada. The author captures the beauty of the mountains, forest and lakes and the people who inhabit the wilderness. I really enjoyed it.

      Good narration.
    • 4/5
      Continuing with my recent theme of travel books, this is by a travel writer who decided to travel across the northern boundary of the US, from Maine to Washington. Along the way, he tells about his travels--from kayaking in Maine to riding a freight ship across the Great Lakes to passing through Standing Rock in North Dakota--and also surveys the history of colonial settlement and the Native Americans in the northern regions of the US.I actually was surprised by how much this book worked for me. The beginning felt a little disjointed with the switching back-and-forth between Fox's trip and the history of European voyages of exploration, but especially as the book went on it seemed that the two strands wove together better. I also definitely learned a lot about the northlands, but it never felt overwhelming.
    • 3/5
      Northland is the border with Canada and the second longest border in the world. The author travels by car and boat from Maine to Washington. It is a travelogue, but also includes a fair amount of history which is unfortunate because that part is not very good, like filler. The author Porter Fox is from Maine and a competent writer in the NYC scene, in his 30s. It wasn't really an adventure of serendipitous discovery, more like a self-imposed writing assignment with prearranged itineraries and meet-ups, on the journalistic side. It's a decent book to learn more about the border region. The culture of northern Maine has spread westward to the Great Plains. Some of the most remote and wild parts of the US are along the border - because few go there. Borders are contested lands at the edge, travelers quickly pass through ports on the way to somewhere else, the result is a long ribbon of undisturbed areas between ports. I was particularly impressed by the Boundary Waters area in Minnesota. Once Fox gets to the Dakotas and Montanna, the entire states are included as part of the Northlands, which stretches the concept thin and challenges the very idea of a contiguous Northland.