In <b><i>One Water</b></i> the author takes us on a journey through the Alaskan wilderness to the streets of its second largest city in a quest to find meaning in this world. The book is not merely a narrative of his adventures but also describes many of the geological, biological, and climactic circumstances that have shaped this great land. Another strand woven through this collection is the coming of age story of a freewheeling young drifter slowly accepting his transformation to adulthood (or close to it, anyway) and his role as a member of a family.
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Rob McCue. One Water
ONE WATER
dispatches from the streets and. backcountry of Interior Alaska
Acknowledgments
Contents
A Night on the Town, 2012
Mulligan, 2006
Goldstream Valley, 2012
Funk, 2009
Killers, 2012
Leaving Winter, 2009
Yoga Breathing in the Midnight Sun, 2012
One Water, 2008 & 2009
Return, 2013
References
Author Bio
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stories by
ROB MCCUE
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I flag an Inupiaq man in his fifties out of the bar. He’s too drunk to remember which hotel he’s staying at. I ask to see his room key, and he digs it out. The key ring says Golden Nugget Hotel. We pass the sign for the Elbow Room bar jutting sideways from the abandoned concrete monolith that was once the Polaris Hotel. I remember nights in that bar crowded with Alaska Native people, a band with guitars and fiddles and drums, marijuana pipes passed between strangers disappearing into the night. It’s a meditation center now.
The man pays the three-dollar fare with a hundred, takes his change, and stumbles in.
