The NBBC Book Club read for May & June is Northland: A 4,000 Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border, by Porter Fox.
This event will be held in a member's home, located at 238 Franklin St. in Greenpoint. The apartment does not have a buzzer, so please call Sarah (914-715-0129) or Thiago (646-642-8301) when you arrive.
"America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. Setting out from the easternmost point in the mainland United States, travel writer Porter Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain’s adventures across the Northeast; recounts the rise and fall of the timber, iron, and rail industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; tracks America’s fur traders through the Boundary Waters; and traces the forty-ninth parallel from Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean.
Fox, who grew up the son of a boat-builder in Maine’s northland, packs his narrative with colorful characters (Captain Meriwether Lewis, railroad tycoon James J. Hill, Chief Red Cloud of the Lakota Sioux) and extraordinary landscapes (Glacier National Park, the Northwest Angle, Washington’s North Cascades). He weaves in his encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland today, wracked by climate change, water wars, oil booms, and border security."
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