Small Feet, Big Land
2014 NOBA Award Winner
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Small Feet, Big Land in the media:
- November 30, 2013 Reading the North, Anchorage Daily News
- November 12, 2013Adventures with Toddlers in Wilderness, Tacoma News Tribune
- November 2, 2013 Home, Family and Climate on the Edge of Alaska, Fairbanks Daily News Miner
- October 29, 2013Play Date: Erin McKittrick, Mother, Adventurer, and author of Small Feet, Big Land, NW Parent Map
- October 25, 2013 Trekking Wild Alaska with Toddlers in Tow, KCAW radio
- October 24, 2013 Hear climbers, adventurers, speak at upcoming events, Herald Net
- October 23, 2013 Small Feet, Big Author Tour, Shelf Awareness
- October 22, 2013 Ketchikan Daily News (interview date)
- October 22, 2013 Trekking With Toddlers – The Continuing Adventures of Erin McKittrick, NW Book Lovers
- October 22, 2013 KTKN radio (live)
- October 22, 2013 KRBD radio (live)
- October 18, 2013: Alaska Trekking Family promotes new book, KFSK radio
- October 14, 2013: Small Feet, Big Land: Trekking Across Alaska at Toddler Speed, Cover 2 Cover on KTUU TV
- October 10, 2013: Alaska Book Week Events continue, Juneau Empire
- October 8, 2013: live on Juneau Afternoon
- October 1, 2013: Talk of Alaska
- September 29, 2013: Book Excerpt: Hiking the Arctic with a Toddler- Anchorage Daily News
- September 28, 2013: Truth is in the eye of the Trekker - Peninsula Clarion
- September 13, 2013: Writing Without Walls - NW Book Lovers
- Aug 23, 2013: Book of family’s travels on Arctic coast set to release this month - Arctic Sounder
- Aug 22, 2013: ‘Small Feet, Big Land’ details family’s wilderness treks across Alaska, with kids in tow - Alaska Dispatch
- Aug 21, 2013: Seldovia adventure-family set to release book on travels - Homer Tribune
Small Feet, Big Land
Adventure, Home, and Family on the Edge of Alaska
2014 National Outdoor Book Award Winner!
in Outdoor Literature
“It is quite simply what exceptional outdoor literature is all about: an honest, perceptive, and graceful account of life close to nature.”
from Mountaineers Books, 2013
by Erin McKittrick, author of A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft, and Ski
Small Feet, Big Land follows the expeditions and daily life of a family of four: Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, lifelong adventure trekkers, set out to explore the vast and remote wild corners of Alaska with their two young children in tow.
After trekking thousands of miles through harsh and beautiful wilderness together, Erin and Hig must adjust to the short attention span – and short legs – of a toddler and the weight of a newborn baby, as they walk Alaska’s rapidly changing coastline. While visiting remote Arctic villages, touring a zinc mine, and exploring for two months on one of Alaska’s largest glaciers, Erin sees the dramatic effects of climate change on the landscape around her, and considers the very different world in which her children may live one day.
Whether huddling in the pelting rain, facing a curious grizzly bear, eating whale blubber with new friends, or picking berries on the sunny tundra their unconventional adventures draw Erin’s family – and readers – closer together as they explore the intersection of wilderness and industry in America’s wildest state.
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