The EssayPostcards from the Floating CoastEpisodes Episode guide

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1. In the Lives of Salmon

   Bathsheba Demuth journeys to the Yukon River to investigate our relationship with salmon.
2. In the Land of Reindeer

   Bathsheba Demuth explores the impact of reindeers' sensitivity to the Arctic climate.
3. In the Company of Walruses

   Historian Bathsheba Demuth seeks human and animal traces in the Arctic ice and tundra.
4. In the Country of Whales

   Bathsheba Demuth examines how different Arctic peoples have valued bowhead whales.
5. In the Minds of Dogs

   Bathsheba Demuth looks at the shifting relationship between humans and dogs in the Arctic.