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Author : Julia McNair Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Among the Alaskans written by Julia McNair Wright and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helge Ingstad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nunamiut written by Helge Ingstad and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Doogan
Publisher : Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN 13 : 9780945397946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Our Alaska written by Mike Doogan and published by Epicenter Press (WA). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich collection of personal stories -- both whimsical and contemplative -- in which the writers open their hearts and homes to reveal the Alaska that few tourists ever see.
Author : Caroline Van Hemert
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316414433
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
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
Author : Timothy Treadwell
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780060173937
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Among Grizzlies written by Timothy Treadwell and published by Harper. This book was released on 1997-03-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the works of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, Timothy Treadwell offers an extraordinary account of the eight summers he spent alone with a pack of wild grizzlies along a remote stretch of the Alaskan coastline. After a misspent youth of drugs, alcohol, petty crime and brushes with suicide, Timothy Treadwell encountered some grizzly bears while tramping through the Alaskan outback one summer. In the eight years since, he has immersed himself in the society of these rare and fascinating animals, observing their culture, photo-graphing their antics and ever so gradually earning their trust. Crammed with little-known bear lore and facts, much of which Treadwell has gleaned from his own research, this is the first book to reveal the day-to-day behavior of bears in the wild. But it is more than an illuminating study of grizzlies. The young author's intimate association with these noble and complex creatures has inspired him to put his own life in order, and his personal story makes Among Grizzlies an exceptionally poignant and exhilarating reading experience.
Author : Brendan Jones
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544325273
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Alaskan Laundry written by Brendan Jones and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This novel will reconvince you of the power of wilderness to heal a human heart” (Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted). Tara Marconi has made her way from Philadelphia to “the Rock,” a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons. Her mother’s death left her unmoored, with a seemingly impassable rift between her and her father. But in this majestic, rugged frontier she works her way up the commercial fishing ladder—from hatchery assistant all the way to king crabber. Disciplined from years as a young boxer, she learns anew what it means to work, to connect, and—through an unlikely old tugboat—how to make a home she knows is her own. A testament to the places that shape us and the places that change us, The Alaskan Laundry tells one woman’s unforgettable journey in waters as far and icy as the Bering Sea, back to the possibility of love.
Author : Alaska Geographic Association
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882409026
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Native Cultures in Alaska written by Alaska Geographic Association and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos....The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Native Cultures in Alaska blends beautiful photographs with informative text to create a striking portrait of the state's diverse and dynamic indigenous population.
Author : Michael Oleksa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Alaskan Missionary Spirituality written by Michael Oleksa and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of documents illustrating the spirituality of the Alaskan orthodox missionaries. Includes letters of St. Herman, writings of St. Innocent, reports from lesser known parish clergy, and diary excerpts. Introduced by an informative historical essay.
Author : Julia O'Malley
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295746750
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Whale and the Cupcake written by Julia O'Malley and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fish and fiddleheads to salmonberries and Spam, Alaskan cuisine spans the two extremes of locally abundant wild foods and shelf-stable ingredients produced thousands of miles away. As immigration shapes Anchorage into one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the country, Alaska’s changing food culture continues to reflect the tension between self-reliance and longing for distant places or faraway homes. Alaska Native communities express their cultural resilience in gathering, processing, and sharing wild food; these seasonal food practices resonate with all Alaskans who come together to fish and stock their refrigerators in preparation for the long winter. In warm home kitchens and remote cafés, Alaskan food brings people together, creating community and excitement in canning salmon, slicing muktuk, and savoring fresh berry pies. This collection features interviews, photographs, and recipes by James Beard Award–winning journalist and third-generation Alaskan Julia O’Malley. Touching on issues of subsistence, climate change, cultural mixing and remixing, innovation, interdependence, and community, The Whale and the Cupcake reveals how Alaskans connect with the land and each other through food.
Author : Marybeth Holleman
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232199
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Among Wolves written by Marybeth Holleman and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska’s wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali’s wolves. He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber’s writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups, and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With the wolves at risk of being destroyed by hunting and trapping, his studies advocated for a balanced approach to wolf management. His fieldwork registered as one of the longest studies in wildlife science and had a lasting impact on wolf policies. Haber’s field notes, his extensive journals, and stories from friends all come together in Among Wolves to reveal much about both the wolves he studied and the researcher himself. Wolves continue to fascinate and polarize people, and Haber’s work continues to resonate.
Author : Richard K. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226571815
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Hunters of the Northern Forest written by Richard K. Nelson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boreal forest Indians like the Kutchin of east-central Alaska are among the few native Americans who still actively pursue a hunter's way of life. Yet even among these people hunting and gathering is vanishing so rapidly that it will soon disappear. This updated edition of Hunters of the Northern Forest stands as the only complete account of subsistence and survival among the Kutchin, capturing a final glimpse of a way of life at the crossroads of cultural development.
Author : Barbara Brown
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 146684518X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Hanukkah in Alaska written by Barbara Brown and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alaska family celebrates Hanukkah with a stubborn moose in their backyard and the Northern Lights as the best-ever menorah. Hanukkah in Alaska is unlike anywhere else. Snow piles up over the windows. Daylight is only five hours long. And one girl finds a moose camped out in her backyard, right near her favorite blue swing. She tries everything to lure it away: apples, carrots, even cookies. But it just keeps eating more tree! It's not until the last night of Hanukkah that a familiar Jewish holiday tradition provides the perfect—and surprising—solution.
Author : Ian C. Hartman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996583787
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Black History in the Last Frontier written by Ian C. Hartman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juliana Hu Pegues
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469656191
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Space-Time Colonialism written by Juliana Hu Pegues and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire. In this richly theorized work, Juliana Hu Pegues evaluates four key historical periods in U.S.-Alaskan history: the Alaskan purchase, the Gold Rush, the emergence of salmon canneries, and the World War II era. In each, Hu Pegues recognizes colonial and racial entanglements between Alaska Native peoples and Asian immigrants. In the midst of this complex interplay, the American colonial project advanced by differentially racializing and gendering Indigenous and Asian peoples, constructing Asian immigrants as "out of place" and Alaska Natives as "out of time." Counter to this space-time colonialism, Native and Asian peoples created alternate modes of meaning and belonging through their literature, photography, political organizing, and sociality. Offering an intersectional approach to U.S. empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labor exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska is essential to understanding both U.S. imperial expansion and the machinations of settler colonialism.
Author : James Campbell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416591214
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Final Frontiersman written by James Campbell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the hit documentary series now on the Discovery+—James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an icily gripping, intimate profile that stands up well beside Krakauer’s classic [Into the Wild], and it stands too, as a kind of testament to the rough beauty of improbably wild dreams” (Men’s Journal). Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his twenties. Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization—a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily existence. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo’s cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family’s amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular, at times unimaginable detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo’s heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at 44 degrees below zero—all the while cultivating the hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate. Awe-inspiring and memorable, The Final Frontiersman reads like a rustic version of the American Dream and reveals for the first time a life undreamed by most of us: amid encroaching environmental pressures, apart from the herd, and alone in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier.
Author : James Oliver Curwood
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775453219
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Alaskan written by James Oliver Curwood and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and conservationist James Oliver Curwood was a remarkably powerful force in the campaign to bring environmental issues into the public discourse in the early twentieth century. In The Alaskan, Curwood uses the intertwined tales of two protagonists to explore the difficulties that early pioneers in Alaska faced in their everyday lives.
Author : Chris Morgan
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781584799313
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Bears of the Last Frontier written by Chris Morgan and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Companion to the PBS series NATURE: bears of the last frontier"--Dustjacket.
