Both Uses of
tundra
in
Ceremony, by Silko
- Eighty miles from the Bering Sea and with temperatures of fifty below zero, I still found Bethel preferable to Ketchikan because at least the frozen tundra had blue sky and miles of visibility in all directions.†
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- Although I was only in Bethel for a month, the stories I heard while I was there, stories about the tundra and the Yupik people, left a powerful impression on me, and the stories I heard there refused to let me get back to work on Ceremony until I wrote a short story about the place and people of the Bethel area.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(tundra) a vast treeless plain in the northern arctic regions where the subsoil is always frozen (between the ice cap and the tree line)More rarely, tundra can refer to alpine tundra (similar areas found elsewhere at high elevation).
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Tundra can refer to a model of a Toyota truck.