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Whale Snow

Author : Chie Sakakibara
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816529612
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Whale Snow written by Chie Sakakibara and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations for a better and more sustainable future. Using multispecies ethnography, Whale Snow explores how everyday the relatedness of the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska and the bowhead whale forms and transforms “the human” through their encounters with modernity. Whale Snow shows how the people live in the world that intersects with other beings, how these connections came into being, and, most importantly, how such intimate and intense relations help humans survive the social challenges incurred by climate change. In this time of ecological transition, exploring multispecies relatedness is crucial as it keeps social capacities to adapt relational, elastic, and resilient. In the Arctic, climate, culture, and human resilience are connected through bowhead whaling. In Whale Snow we see how climate change disrupts this ancient practice and, in the process, affects a vital expression of Indigenous sovereignty. Ultimately, though, this book offers a story of hope grounded in multispecies resilience.

Arctic Village

Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Classic Reprint Series
ISBN 13 : 9780912006512
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Village written by Robert Marshall and published by Classic Reprint Series. This book was released on 1991 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic is an original work of literature by one of America's foremost conservationists and is an account of the people of the north, both Native and white, who give Alaska its special human flavor. First published over fifty years ago, the book is still a favorite among old-time Alaskans and, over the years, has prompted numerous readers to pack up and move to Alaska. The richness of statistical coverage in this book, and Marshall's careful descriptions of the characters he met, provide readers with a window to the world of 1930 and a nearly complete record of the Koyukuk civilization as he saw it. Readers learn what the people of Wiseman thought about sex, religion, politics, and the myriad of ways they found to cope with and enjoy life in a wilderness community.

Shopping for Porcupine

Author : Seth Kantner
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571313010
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Shopping for Porcupine written by Seth Kantner and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from family histories to hunting stories, celebrations of people and places to a lament over a majestic wilderness rapidly disappearing, Shopping for Porcupine provides a compelling, intimate view of America's last frontier -- the same place that captivated so many readers of Ordinary Wolves.

The Sun Is a Compass

Author : Caroline Van Hemert
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316414433
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Sun Is a Compass written by Caroline Van Hemert and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel

Land of Extremes

Author : Alex Huryn
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231826
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Land of Extremes written by Alex Huryn and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the identification and natural history of the common animals and plants and a primer on the human prehistory of the region from the Pleistocene through the mid-twentieth century. The appendix provides the framework for a tour of the natural history features along the Dalton Highway, a road connecting the crest of the Brooks Range with Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean, and includes mile markers where travelers may safely pull off to view geologic formations, plants, birds, mammals, and fish. Featuring hundreds of illustrations that support the clear, authoritative text, Land of Extremes reveals the arctic tundra as an ecosystem teeming with life.

Dawn in Arctic Alaska

Author : Diamond Jenness
Publisher : Minneapolis, U. of Minnesota P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dawn in Arctic Alaska written by Diamond Jenness and published by Minneapolis, U. of Minnesota P. This book was released on 1957 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's experiences as a member of the Stefansson Expedition.

Far North in the Arctic

Author : Cory Cooper Hansen
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570613710
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Far North in the Arctic written by Cory Cooper Hansen and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book celebrates the wonders of Alaska in rhyme and meter. Adapted from the classic counting poem "Over the Meadow" by Olive Wadsworth, it inspires children to count the wildlife of the great northern wilderness: baby whales, bear cubs, fox kits, ptarmigan chicks, and more. In addition to the rhyme, the text includes a short description of each animal and a glossary that explains in simple terms things like what igloos are and why Alaska is called "The Land of the Midnight Sun."

Arctic Alaska and Siberia, Or, Eight Months with the Arctic Whalemen

Author : Herbert Lincoln Aldrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Alaska and Siberia, Or, Eight Months with the Arctic Whalemen written by Herbert Lincoln Aldrich and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic Alaska and Siberia, or, Eight Months with the Arctic Whalemen is an account of the 1887 Arctic whaling season by journalist Herbert L. Aldrich (1860-1948). Between March and October of 1887, Aldrich spent time on eight New Bedford whaling vessels, documenting the whaling industry and the native peoples of Arctic Alaska. Aldrich was a young reporter for the New Bedford Evening Standard who resolved to accompany the Arctic whaling fleet after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and told he had less than a year to live. He received the support of the leaders of New Bedford's whaling industry, who wanted him to document what they knew to be a dying industry. During his time in the Arctic, Aldrich took more than 700 photographs documenting all aspects of the whale hunt. Many of his photographs are now preserved in New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Upon his return to New Bedford, Aldrich lectured extensively on his experiences and published this book in 1889. The book includes illustrations and a map of the Arctic whaling grounds north of Alaska. Defying predictions of an early death, Aldrich lived into his late eighties. He went on to become managing editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Jacksonville Florida Citizen and in 1897 founded the Aldrich Publishing Company of New York.

On Arctic Ground

Author :
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781594856891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book On Arctic Ground written by and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossilized dinosaur bones. Caribou tracks, both ancient and new. Wide open spaces. Vast migrations... The National Petroleum Reserve -- Alaska is more than a natural resource -- it's a place of rare, unprotected beauty * Full color conservation advocacy book features essays from Arctic authorities such as Bruce Babbitt, Jack Horner, Jeff Fair, and more. * Published in collaboration with the Alaska Wilderness League Originally set aside by President Harding in 1923 as a back-up resource for military fuel needs, the National Petroleum Reserve -- Alaska is home to half a million migrating caribou, countless migrating birds from all over the world, and, surprisingly, one of the largest Polar dinosaur fossil beds in the Arctic. The Reserve is also the largest piece of undisturbed public land in the United States -- yet few outside of Alaska have ever heard of it. On Arctic Ground, from Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books, features a series of vignettes written by well-loved Alaskan author Debbie S. Miller (Midnight Wilderness) about the astonishing array of wildlife she has encountered over many seasons exploring the Reserve. Additionally, former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt writes the book's preface, drawing on his years of experience managing both the economic and biological resources of the Reserve. Miller's vignettes are accompanied by images from an array of award-winning conservation photographers. The book also features essays and insight from Alaskan writers and science authorities -- including wildlife biologist Jeff Fair and senior Audubon Alaska scientist John Schoen -- as well as an essay and audio download by noted Alaska writer and soundscape artist Richard Nelson. Paleontologists Jack Horner and Patrick Druckenmiller share the most recent research and remarkable discoveries associated with dinosaur studies in the Alaskan Arctic. This book will serve as a platform to bring greater public awareness to the opportunities for permanently preserving the significant biological areas and wildlife that thrive within the Reserve. Braided River will collaborate with the Alaska Wilderness League to bring this story to members of Congress, the media, and the general public. Visit www.braidedriver.org to learn more.

The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada

Author : Andrew Miall
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444638962
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada written by Andrew Miall and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-04-20 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada, Second Edition, focuses on the large, regional, sedimentary accumulations in Canada and the United States. Each chapter provides a succinct summary of the tectonic setting and structural and paleogeographic evolution of the basin it covers, with details on structure and stratigraphy. The book features four new chapters that cover the sedimentary basins of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. In addition to sedimentary geologists, this updated reference is relevant for basin analysis, regional geology, stratigraphy, and for those working in the hydrocarbon exploration industry. - Features updates to existing chapters, along with new chapters on sedimentary basins in Alaska and Arctic Canada - Includes nearly 300 detailed, full-color paleogeographic maps - Written for general geological audiences and individuals working in the resources sector, particularly those in the fossil fuel industry

Arctic Homestead

Author : Norma Cobb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312283797
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Homestead written by Norma Cobb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles a family's efforts to build a home near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, depicting their moving discovery of love and courage in a land of modern-day outlaws, feuds, grizzly bears, and unbelievably harsh winters.

Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic

Author : Finn Danielsen
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602234280
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic written by Finn Danielsen and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, nonetheless still has untapped potential. Presenting numerous examples and substantial data from a pan-Arctic survey and several workshops around the Arctic, Ths book offers a state of the field and a guide for mapping out the next steps. Contributors include Finn Danielsen, Noor Johnson, Olivia Lee, Maryann Fidel, Lisbeth Iversen, Michael K. Poulsen, Hajo Eicken, Ania Albin, Simone G. Hansen, Peter L. Pulsifer, Peter Thorne, and Martin Enghoff.

Above the Arctic Circle

Author : Jame A. Carroll
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1594335575
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Above the Arctic Circle written by Jame A. Carroll and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above the Arctic Circle transports the reader back in time to the Alaska of 1911 into the Athabaskan Indian village of Fort Yukon and beyond. It was a time when travel was by trail or river on routes shared by man and wild beast, when communication reached only as far as the echo of one's voice, and when the first order of each new day was survival in the face of unyielding natural elements. This is the time and place chronicled in the personal journals of James A. Carroll: explorer, pioneer, dogsled musher, trapper, trader, husband, and father. It is an authentic first-hand account of a young man's first decade in the territory of Alaska, a straightforward telling of the adversity and adventures of life on the far north frontier. This story, told with honesty and more than a little humor, offers a kind of kinship connecting author and reader thereby extending a personal invitation to take the journey north through time with James A. Carroll -- Above the Arctic Circle.

The Arctic Brotherhood

Author : Ashley Bowman
Publisher : Lynn Canal Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780945284123
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Arctic Brotherhood written by Ashley Bowman and published by Lynn Canal Pub. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic Brotherhood, a fraternal order that emerged from the Klondike Gold Rush, established itself in 1899 in the boomtowns of Skagway, Bennett, Atlin, and Dawson City and then spread into the Alaska Interior and all the way to Nome. In this captivating history by Ashley Bowman, a descendant of an Arctic Brother, we learn all the quirks of this order and how its camp members influenced the Alaska Home Rule movement before the Brotherhood quickly faded away in the 1920s. A few A.B. Halls still stand in the North, including ornate structures in Skagway and Dawson, a testament to the order and its motto: No Boundary Line Here.

A Place Beyond

Author : Nick Jans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882404776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Place Beyond written by Nick Jans and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-eight essays about living in arctic Alaska center around daily life in the Eskimo village of Ambler.

The Adventures of Apun the Arctic Fox

Author : Elizabeth O'Connell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578336807
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Apun the Arctic Fox written by Elizabeth O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arctic Oil

Author : Judy Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989577991
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Oil written by Judy Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic Oil: Photographs of Alaska's North Slope introduces readers to a remote region north of the Arctic Circle. Only the Native peoples who lived there for centuries and the small workforce that keeps Alaska s mammoth oil fields producing had previously known the area. Judy Patrick s photographs now bring this secret corner of the world to the public eye. Images of ice roads and ice islands built for winter exploration lie next to images of year-round production complexes hauled north by barge, and page turns reveal the faces of roughnecks on drill rigs. The melding of pristine Alaska and modern industry in each image make this book is a unique and intriguing compilation. Taken over two decades, these photographs showcase Alaska s North Slope oil industry from the massive Prudhoe Bay field to the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and beyond. Few people beyond those who work there get to see what Alaska s oil industry looks like, but Alaskan photographer Judy Patrick brings it to life for those of us who will never make the trek north.