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Author : Suanne Unger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991459100
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Qaqamiigux written by Suanne Unger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Mackovjak
Publisher : Documentary Media LLC and University of Washington
ISBN 13 : 9781933245270
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Aleutian Freighter written by James R. Mackovjak and published by Documentary Media LLC and University of Washington. This book was released on 2012 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among U.S. maritime cargo operations, the Aleutian trade is and has always been carried on by small break-bulk cargo vessels, through severe weather, and a grueling schedule; not an industry for the weak, timid, or foolhardy. Contained in these pages is a history of the Aleutian trade, from the sailing vessels of the 19th century that transported salted cod, to the mailboats that for decades provided the region s only scheduled communication with the outside world, to the make-do, rough-and-tumble, seafood-driven fleet expansion of the 1980s, to the small but capable fleet of today. It is a history of small ships and the people who owned and operated them, set in a severe and unforgiving environment, and framed by an evolving marine resource-based economy.
Author : Russell W. Estlack
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786476389
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Aleut Internments of World War II written by Russell W. Estlack and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to the reparations hearings of the late 1970s, it sheds light on the little-known story of the Aleut people and the events in war and peace that shaped their lives. The actions that led to the internments of the Aleuts are documented through official records, letters, and personal accounts that reveal the experiences of a native people who suffered and died in the camps while posing no threat to national security in time of war. In some cases native Alaskans were held in camps that were almost as bad as the Japanese POW camps.
Author : Brian Payton
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062279998
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Wind Is Not a River written by Brian Payton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands. Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.” There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese. Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is—and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows.
Author : Galen Roger Perras
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774809900
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Stepping Stones to Nowhere written by Galen Roger Perras and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aleutian Islands, a mostly forgotten portion of the United States on the southwest coast of Alaska, have often assumed a key role in American military strategy. This work examines the Japanese occupation of the western Aleutians, which climaxed in the horrendous battle for Attu.
Author : Nick Golodoff
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232490
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Attu Boy written by Nick Golodoff and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1942 the Japanese army invaded Attu, a remote island at the end of the Aleutian Chain. Soldiers occupied the village for two months before taking its Alaska Native residents to Japan, where they were held until the end of the war. After harassing American and Canadian forces for little over a year, the Japanese forces quietly withdrew. After the war, the Attuans' return to Alaska was not a joyful reunion. When they were released, the Attuans were not allowed to return to their home, but were settled instead in Atka, several hundred miles from Attu. "Attu Boy" is Nick Golodoff s memoir of his experience as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II as a young boy. Nick was six years old when Japanese soldiers invaded his remote Aleutian village. Along with the other Unangan Attu residents, Nick and his family were taken to Hokkaido, Japan. Only 25 of the Attuans survived the war; the others died of hunger, malnutrition, and disease. Nick tells his story from the unique viewpoint of a child who experienced friendly relationships with some of the Japanese captors along with harsh treatment from others. Other voices join Nick s to give the book a broad sense of the struggles, triumphs, and heartbreak of lives disrupted by war. "
Author : Brendan Coyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602232372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Kiska written by Brendan Coyle and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska s Aleutian Island chain, barren and windswept, arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. Few have the opportunity even to visit this island, but in June of 1942 Japanese troops seized Kiska and neighboring Attu in the only occupation of North American territory since the War of 1812. The bastion of Japan s possessions in Alaska, Kiska was soon fortified with 7,500 enemy troops, a seaplane base, naval anchorage and submarine base, heavy guns and a labyrinth of tunnels. For thirteen months Japanese troops held a tenuous hold on the island under constant bombardment from American forces, but finally and successfully abandoning the island. So hurried was the evacuation that equipment and personal effects were left behind. The Japanese occupiers of Kiska have remained shadowy figures. Brendan Coyle spent 51 days on Kiska searching out the tunnels, equipment and personal effects frozen in time. Those objects are brought back to life in the over three hundred images Coyle has assembled from his own visit and from archives. His writing puts the images in historical and contemporary perspective, opening a new window on a remote battlefield and unforgiving landscape."
Author : Olaus Johan Murie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fauna of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula written by Olaus Johan Murie and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematic account of the results of a survey made in 1936 and 1937 to aid supervision of the Aleutian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. (AB60374).
Author : Suzi Golodoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602232204
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Wildflowers of Unalaska Island written by Suzi Golodoff and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first wildflower guide to focus on the Aleutian Islands, "Wildflowers of Unalaska Island" offers detailed descriptions, color photographs, and lovely, original drawings of over 160 species of flowering plants. Ideal for everyone from casual hikers to serious botanists, the guide is botanically precise, yet keeps technical terms to a minimum for ease of use and identification in the field. It is sized and designed to slip easily into a backpack and can be used as a quick field reference or more leisurely browsed. The introduction includes background on the unique geologic history, climate, and habitats of this verdant but windswept archipelago. The ethnobotanical information on the Aleutor Unangannames and uses of the plants broadens the reader s experience of the traditional Native culture of the region. "
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0395069629
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143913183X
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Aleutian Sparrow written by Karen Hesse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people had lived and thrived on these treeless, windswept lands. Within days of the first attack, the entire native population living west of Unimak Island was gathered up and evacuated to relocation centers in the dense forests of Alaska's Southeast. With resilience, compassion, and humor, the Aleuts responded to the sorrows of upheaval and dislocation. This is the story of Vera, a young Aleut caught up in the turmoil of war. It chronicles her struggles to survive and to keep community and heritage intact despite harsh conditions in an alien environment.
Author : Lydia Black
Publisher : Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association
ISBN 13 : 9781578642144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Aleut Art written by Lydia Black and published by Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new, expanded volume features rare photographs and insights about the Aleutian heritage, and provides a showcase for contemporary Aleut artists and their works."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Peninsula Debris Removal written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Civil Liberties Act of 1985 and the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Kohlhoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295974033
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)
Download or read book When the Wind was a River written by Dean Kohlhoff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II came to the North Pacific in June 1942. Alaska's Native people living on the Aleutian and Pribilof islands, the Aleuts, felt its impact as did no other American citizens in that region. Forty-two residents of Attu Island were captured and imprisoned in Japan and, in response to Japanese bombings of Dutch Harbor and invasions of Kiska Island, the American military evacuated the remaining 881 Aleuts from the islands to camps in southeastern Alaska. The story of the removal of the Aleuts is little known outside Alaska. Dean Kohlhoff delved extensively into civilian and government archives, as well as videotapes of Aleuts chronicling their wartime experiences, to compile this engrossing account of the evacuation. Personal accounts tell of life in the temporary camps, in which the makeshift accommodations arranged by the Department of the Interior failed to reflect the good intentions of some Interior officials. One visitor to the Funter Bay camp wrote, "I have no language at my command which can adequately describe what I saw....I have seen some tough places in my days in Alaska, but nothing to equal the situation in Funter". Upon their eventual return, the Aleuts found that their homes had been devastated by weather, fire, and both Japanese and American military operations, and they began the fight for reparation for loss of property and income that would affect them long after the war. Finally the Civil Rights Act of 1988, which awarded damage claims to Japanese Americans relocated during the war, led to restitution for the Aleuts, who Congress and the president agreed had been mistreated.
Author : John Haile Cloe
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780996583732
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Attu written by John Haile Cloe and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Attu, which took place from 11-30 May 1943, was a battle fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and the Empire of Japan on Attu Island off the coast of the Territory of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during the American Theater and the Pacific Theater and was the only land battle of World War II fought on incorporated territory of the United States. It is also the only land battle in which Japanese and American forces fought in Arctic conditions. The more than two-week battle ended when most of the Japanese defenders were killed in brutal hand-to-hand combat after a final banzai charge broke through American lines. Related products: Aleutian Islands: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/aleutian-islands-us-army-campaigns-world-war-ii-pamphlet Aleutians, Historical Map can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/aleutians-historical-map-poster Other products produced by the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/national-park-service-nps World War II resources collection is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/world-war-ii
Author : Donald Goldstein
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557282420
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The Williwaw War written by Donald Goldstein and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An amazing story of Arkansas soldiers and their struggle in the Aleutians. A must read book for those who want to learn about a forgotten part of that great war told from a soldier's point of view." -Major General James A. Ryan The Adjutant General Military Department of Arkansas
