Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska

from SunnySD

D'Orso's depiction of life in the Alaskan arctic is bleak and depressing and gritty and beautiful all at once. You can almost feel the cold, smell the sweat and smoke, and hear the squeak of the men's work boots as they thunder down the gym floor chasing the ball carrier. This is a story of baske...

from KbookB

Takes the reader on a trip to watch basketball in a most unlikely of places, northern Alaska. In the town of Fort Yukon basketball is king. Here, in the Alaska interior, a collection of native Gwich'in Indians and immigrants live in conditions of the most extreme nature. And each year, Dave, a na...

from JNSelko

A terrific work of Cultural Anthropology from a very odd angle- hoops.

from leftik

I'm not a big fan of sports nonfiction, so this book was hard for me to get through. It's very realistic, if depressing, and was worth it just to glimpse a sliver of life in bush Alaska. The reason why I didn't particularly love it was because it was just plain slow and hard to wade through. But,...

from audramelissa

Writer D'Orso spent a winter with the high school boys' basketball team, the Fort Yukon Eagles. The remote village of Fort Yukon is eight miles above the Arctic Circle and is home to around 600 people-mainly Athabascan Gwich'in Natives. D'Orso invites the reader into the lives of the boys and the...