Both Uses of
tundra
in
Ceremony
- 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.†
Chpt A.P. *
- 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.†
Chpt A.P.
Definition:
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(tundra) a vast treeless plain in the northern arctic regions where the subsoil is always frozen (between the ice cap and the tree line)