Poor Stickeen The Wee Hairy Sleekit Beastie

Part adventure story and part meditation, Stickeen is the account of the most dangerous day in the life of the 19th-century explorer John Muir. Stranded in a in a snowstorm on the Alaskan frontier, man and beast reveal their true natures to themselves and one another as they confront the murderous obstacles of the Alaskan terrain.