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Lew Freedman
Thunder on the Tundra
Football Above the Arctic Circle

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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.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 264 ● ISBN 9780882408439 ● Publisher Graphic Arts Books ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2349438 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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