Northern Lights: One Woman, Two Teams, and the Football Field That Changed Their Lives

by Cathy Parker and David Thomas

Book Overview

Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska. Football mom Cathy Parker first caught a glimpse of this far-away reality from the comfort of her Jacksonville, Florida, living room while watching a 2006 ESPN report on the Barrow Whalers, a high school football team consisting mostly of Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo natives playing in the most difficult of conditions and trying to overcome the most unlikely of odds. These players--raised in the northernmost town in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785223800
• ISBN13: 9780785223801
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"