Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

Enjoyed parts of it. Halfway through, it became increasingly politically biased. I liked the history; keep the leftist diatribes. I found it too repellent to finish, and deleted it. No more from this author.

Porter Fox's journey across the top of our United States is a timely reminder of many aspects of our history as well as current immigration issues: our past and continued injustice towards indigenous people many of whom inhabit these borderlands across two nations, our ecological rape of the very sources of our nation's water and forests, our sometimes ridiculous efforts at treaty making, and the increased oversight and suspicion at border crossings since 9/11. These are all worthy, necessary and well described in Fox's clear writing style. Beyond the informative, he illuminates the experiences of his journey with McPhee like descriptions of the changing geological and biological landscapes, and the lived experiences of the current inhabitants of the northern border. I felt as though I traveled alongside him in his canoe, on the lumbering Great Lakes freighter, hiking into remote campsites, and intermittently in his car across flat highways and mountain passes to the Pacific Ocean. I couldn't put this book down and was gratefully exhausted at the end! I look forward to his next journey!