Great Northern Lost Moose Catalogue

Monika Rohlmann is an environmental/social consultant in Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories.

This is the third Lost Moose Catalogue (the first was published in
1979). The catalogue was developed to represent the northern community
by providing a cross-section of real-life stories from northerners who
might otherwise not be published. Although all the selections have gone
through some tough collective editing, The Great Northern Lost Moose
Catalogue is meant for everyday readers and not literary critics.

The book contains drawings, photos, prose, verse, and recipes
contributed by 275 northern enthusiasts from the Yukon, Alaska,
Northwest Territories, and northern British Columbia. The word
“catalogue” usually implies a listing or grouping of notes or
pictures arranged in alphabetical or other order. But order is not what
the Lost Moose Catalogue provides. Instead, it follows, in typical moose
fashion, a graze, roam, and doze routine: a detailed descripton of an
encounter with a silver-bellied cloudsucker bird that could put a reader
right to sleep might be followed by an epic outhouse venture.
Thankfully, there are plenty of drawings, comics, and photos dispersed
throughout to catch one’s attention and keep the humor rolling.

Of obvious appeal to northerners, the Lost Moose Catalogue is also the
perfect book for harried southerners who dream of slowing down.