The Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic

Alaska Native Literature Award Winner

The tragic yet triumphant story of a young mother's winter journey to the Bering Sea coast with her two young children. This powerful narrative will haunt readers.

Advanced in pregnancy and now newly widowed, Qutuuq sets out with her two children, leaving their camp and following a frozen river to the coast. Homebound, one step at a time, through the subzero wilderness.

This is a chilling, true story dating from 1892. It tells of battles against killing cold, starvation, and exhaustion. It's the story of a haunting decision made in the throes of desperation. And ultimately it's a story of survival and triumph amid unspeakable sorrow.

More than a century later, Qutuuq's story, which has descended through her Inupiat Eskimo family as oral history, is retold in print by her great-granddaughter.

Author: Loretta Outwater Cox
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.18h x 5.08w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780882405742

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 102744 / Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic

About the Author
Cox, Loretta Outwater: - Loretta Outwater Cox is an Inupiaq woman, born in Nome, Alaska, and raised in various villages around the Seward Peninsula. She holds a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in education administration. Loretta taught school in western Alaska for twenty-three years. She and her husband, Skip, have three children and three grandchildren.