Here, once again, is proof that wandering the new book shelves at your local library is a worthy use of time. I stumbled onto this book quite by accident and am wonderfully impressed by the breadth of content Mr Reid has managed to stuff into this volume.

Equal parts adventure travel, philosophy, and spritiual guide commentary, the story revolves around journey's taken from his home in Carson City, Nevada to utterly remote locations north of the Arctic Circle in his quest for sightings of the Porcupine Herd of barren ground caribou. He writes of arctic exploration in the past, timeless vistas along still frozen rivers, the mystic ability of the caribou, and other animals, and how they manage to find their way across trackless miles of land and sky by mechanisms that still defy science, tying all this together with man's current and past views of the land and where we fit into this puzzle.

This is a thought provoking, beautifully written story that weaves multiple tales into a single view of life, time and the earth. I strongly recommend it.