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Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2012
ISBN 10: 1602231869ISBN 13: 9781602231863
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyoneand almost any breed of dogcan participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this popular and practical guide to the sport covers what equipment is needed, how to teach a dog to pull, and how to work with your dog year-round. Although it is geared toward beginners, Skijor with Your Dog offers plenty of useful information for experienced skijorers as well, including racing tips, how to involve children, how to camp and travel with dogs, and how to train for competition. The book also covers canicross, bikejoring, and other ways to work with dogs when theres no snow.With this book in hand, readers will have all the information they need to begin enjoying the outdoors with their dogs in a whole new way. Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a sport in which almost anyone - and almost any breed of dog - can participate. This title covers what equipment is needed, how to teach a dog to pull, and how to work with your dog year-round. It also covers canicross, bikejoring, and other ways to work with dogs when there's no snow. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2020
ISBN 10: 1602234108ISBN 13: 9781602234109
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Alaska Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamation of statehood on January 3, 1959. The constitution was drafted by fifty-five delegates who convened at the University of Alaska to determine the authority vested in the state legislature, executive, judiciary, and other functions of government. This conveniently sized new edition will make the Alaska State Constitution accessible to all. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2009
ISBN 10: 1602230692ISBN 13: 9781602230699
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There are some twenty-five words for snow in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a different kind of snowfresh powder snow, hard pack, soft snow, very wet snow, or just snow. Such fine distinction is reasonable, for over the centuries, Natives of the Arctic have had to rely on their knowledge of the snow to survive. Now Matthew Sturm has prepared an educational childrens book designed to teach a new generation of Arctic residents the importance of Arctic snow cover. Fully illustrated to demonstrate the cycle of the snow cover, Apun covers each phase of the snow year. Geared towards grades 34, this is a must read for elementary science classes. There are some twenty-five words for 'snow' in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a different kind of snow - fresh powder snow, hard pack, soft snow, very wet snow, or just snow. This book teaches Arctic residents the importance of Arctic snow cover. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2018
ISBN 10: 160223342XISBN 13: 9781602233423
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles shes called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very place in the world is called into constant negotiation. In this swirl of contradictions, finding her own selfher corecan be a bewildering journey. Woman Prime is about the fundamental human wish to settle into an authentic self, a prime identity. It follows one woman through her roleschild, adult, wife, motherand shows how she must remake herself through each new stage. Like many women, the speaker believed that leaving her parents home, falling in love, and raising children would reveal the essential core of herself. Instead, she learns that those she loves can fail her and that she must embrace a world full of flickering and conflicting expectations for women. Woman Prime is about every woman and no womana mutable voice that will still resonate with anyone trying to reconcile their flawed and complicated selves. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2015
ISBN 10: 1602232571ISBN 13: 9781602232570
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in this new collection, wending a lyrical and at times mystical path between Alaska and New England. Travelers along the way include the fabled wolf of Gubbio, old and lame and long past his taming encounter with Saint Francis of Assisi, and Chinese poet Li Bai chanting to a Yangtze River dolphin. Yet, while Sexton's journey crosses borders-and occasionally centuries-his ultimate destination is always the landscape and people of Alaska. A Ladder of Cranes showcases Sexton's mastery of both traditional forms and free verse. The tensions of his formal influences, Chinese and European, force the reader to experience these spare lines and tight observations in stunning new ways. Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, this book tells that author is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. It showcases author's mastery of both traditional forms and free verse. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2017
ISBN 10: 160223311XISBN 13: 9781602233119
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Rooted in the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of Alaska, this collection of poems is at once comforting and disquieting, permeated with wisdom, darkness, and resilience. Taken together, the poems form a powerful narrative, as Julie Hungiville LeMay relates a personal story of the recurrence of cancer and interweaves it with an account of her sons struggle with addiction. In a world of so much pain, her poems ask, how can we find meaning? The answer, often, is nature: among spruce branches that whisper and the yellow joy / of warblers. Half-found poems that contain lines from John Muir's essays are arranged throughout the book like touchstones, while other poems invoke the spirit of Wordsworth. LeMays voice is precise and clear, her lines musical and sonically rich, making this ambitious, wide-ranging book one that readers wont soon forget. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2015
ISBN 10: 1602232539ISBN 13: 9781602232532
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A debut collection from an exciting new voice in Alaska poetry, Overwinter reconciles the natural quiet of wilderness with the clamor of built environments. Jeremy Patakys migration between Anchorage and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park inspires these poems that connect urban to rural. This duality permeates Overwinter. Moments are at turns fevered or serene. The familial and romantic are measured against the wildness of the Far North. Empty spaces bring both solace and loneliness in full. Past loves haunt the present, surviving in the spaces sculpted by language. Features poems that connect urban to rural. This title also includes poems, in which, the familial and romantic are measured against the wildness of the Far North. Empty spaces bring both solace and loneliness in full. Past loves haunt the present, surviving in the spaces sculpted by language. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2012
ISBN 10: 1602231591ISBN 13: 9781602231597
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The poems included in The Rabbits Could Sing delve farther into territory that Amber Flora Thomas visited in her prize-winning book Eye of Water, showing even more clearly how the seam has been pulled so far open on the past that the dress will never close. Here, the poem acts not as a body in itself but as a garb drawn around the here and now. Loss, longing, and violation are sustenance to a spirit jarred from its animal flesh and torn apart, unsettling the reader with surprising images that are difficult to forget. The poems in The Rabbits Could Sing invite the reader into a world thick with the lush bounty of summer in the far north, where the present is never far from the shadow of the past. Features poems that delve farther into the territory that the poet visited in her prizewinning book "Eye of Water", showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress will never close." In this title, the poem acts not as a body in itself but as a garb drawn around the here and now. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2017
ISBN 10: 1602233276ISBN 13: 9781602233270
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellows twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as North Americas highest peak is so massive that it has its own distinct weather systemchangeable and perilous, subject to sudden whiteout conditionsa family whose loved one is irretrievably lost has a grief so blinding and vast that it also creates its own capricious internal weather, one that lasts for generations. Whiteout is Goodfellows account of growing up in this unnavigable and often unspoken-of climate of bereavement. Although her poems begin with a missing body, they are not an elegy. Instead, Goodfellow struggles with the absence of cultural ritual for the uncontainable loss of a beloved one whose body is never recovered and whose final story is unknowable. There is no solace here, no possible reconciliation. Instead, Whiteout is a defiant gaze into a storm that engulfs both the wildness of Alaska and of familial mourning. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2018
ISBN 10: 1602233640ISBN 13: 9781602233645
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On the night Li Bai tried to embrace the moon / in its fullness on the surface of the Yangtze River, / blossoms scented the air, and beyond the moon / pale stars powdered the sky. That faint shiver / of white near the surface was a dolphin rising. / I carry a book of his poems whenever I travel, / poems that touch the heart like a gentle snow. / Look, over there in that marsh, a snowy egret rising. The day after their wedding, Tom and Sharyn Sexton set off on the more than 4,500-mile journey from Massachusetts to Alaska. Now, more than fifty years later, Tom Sexton is retracing those steps through his exceptional poetry. He describes the communities they passed through and ruminates on the changes, good and bad, that have taken place in the decades since. He still finds hope in the country and draws transformative hope from the land that connects all of us. Appropriate for a journey that moves from east to west, the Sextons real-life voyage is embedded in the imaginary journey of the ancient Chinese poet, Li Bai, from Broad Pass to Polychrome Pass in the Alaska Range. "Poetry about Alaska, growing old, and more"-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2017
ISBN 10: 1602233322ISBN 13: 9781602233324
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ends of the Earth uses the landscape of Alaska as a testing ground for love and elegy. It is a poetry collection that contains both lyric responses to the urban Alaska environment and extended sequences that cycle between autobiography, mythic allusion, and the literary archive. In her work, Kate Partridge combines the fresh perspective of a newcomer with explorations of the landscape and lifestyles through allusions to classic literature. While the poems turn an inquisitive, contemporary lens to the subject of Alaska, elements throughout the book are influenced by twentieth-century writers like Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore. The manuscript also combines personal experience with collaged material from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Walt Whitman's notebooks, and other classic sources, to investigate the ideas of love, isolation, and location. Through humor and observation, Partridge takes a new look at what it means to live in urban Alaska and the world at large. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2018
ISBN 10: 1602233500ISBN 13: 9781602233508
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Just Between Us is a celebration of the vivid human connections that occur when traveling through some of the worlds most stirring landscapes. David McElroy, a former pilot in the far north, transports us from the Arctic to the tropics, over rural and urban lands, and even into the landscape of dreams. Throughout his verse is a sense of longing and the desire for intimacy, showing that despite our diverse lives, we are all driven to share our existences with one another. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 1991
ISBN 10: 0912006536ISBN 13: 9780912006536
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The crookedest street in Fairbanks, an Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named for town founder E. T. Barnette. Crooked Past, Terrence Cole's lively history of Fairbanks examines one of Alaska's most notorious con men. Barnette, a footloose fortune hunter who had served time in an Oregon penitentiary, came north during the Klondike gold rush of 1897-1898. He struck it rich after founding the city of Fairbanks in the early 1900s. Yet less than ten years later he was run out of the territory and allegedly disappeared in Mexico, becoming the most hated man in the town he founded and fled. The crookedest street in Fairbanks, an Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named for town founder E. T. Barnette. "Crooked Past," Terrence Cole's lively history of Fairbanks examines one of Alaska's most notorious con men. Barnette, a footloose fortune hunter who had served time in an Oregon penitentiary, came north during the Klondike gold rush of 1897-1898. He struck it rich after founding the city of Fairbanks in the early 1900s. Yet less than ten years later he was run out of the territory and allegedly disappeared in Mexico, becoming the most hated man in the town he founded and fled. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2007
ISBN 10: 1889963984ISBN 13: 9781889963983
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1899, George Bird Grinnell journeyed to Alaska on the Harriman Expedition, a scientific cruise from Seattle to the North Pacific. Accompanied by explorer John Muir and photographer Edward S. Curtis, Grinnell spent two months chronicling the lives of the Natives of Alaska and Siberia. A keen observer of his surroundings, Grinnell provides a unique perspective on northern life in the late nineteenth century. He documented hunting techniques and material culture of the Eskimo of Siberia, as well as the totem poles and architecture of the Tlingit of Southeast. As a pioneer conservationist, Grinnell was one of the first to express concern over the effects of trade and industry on Alaska's peoples and natural resources.Illustrated with photos and drawings by Harriman Expedition members, including Edward S. Curtis, this volume makes the work of a passionate observer available to a new generation of readers. In 1899, George Bird Grinnell journeyed to Alaska on the Harriman Expedition, a scientific cruise from Seattle to the North Pacific. Accompanied by explorer John Muir and photographer Edward S. Curtis, Grinnell spent two months chronicling the lives of the Natives of Alaska and Siberia. A keen observer of his surroundings, Grinnell provides a unique perspective on northern life in the late nineteenth century. He documented hunting techniques and material culture of the Eskimo of Siberia, as well as the totem poles and architecture of the Tlingit of Southeast. As a pioneer conservationist, Grinnell was one of the first to express concern over the effects of trade and industry on Alaska's peoples and natural resources. Illustrated with photos and drawings by Harriman Expedition members, including Edward S. Curtis, this volume makes the work of a passionate observer available to a new generation of readers. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2021
ISBN 10: 160223437XISBN 13: 9781602234376
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From solo voyages down the Yukon and part of the Northwest Passage, to working with humpback whales in the Southern Ocean, to chilling encounters with polar bears, Rosemary McGuires stories are told in spare, graceful prose. It is her friendships with local people, and with scientific researchers, that form the core of her experiences. Through these local contacts and traditional knowledge, she learns humility and a sense of wonder at the natural world, while at the same time coming to appreciate the gritty determination of the field researchers whose work she shares. Throughout, she examines human relationships with wilderness, and our growing effects on a fragile planet. And so, as she writes, In the end, this is a love story for a threatened place. A scientists graceful memoir of working in the enchanting worlds of Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2019
ISBN 10: 160223387XISBN 13: 9781602233874
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Armor & Ornament turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry, calling instead upon traditional and Biblical forms. Rather than drawing on recent styles and modern trends, Miles looks to the texts that have inspired artists for millennia. These are Christian poems that have a deep and unapologetic understanding of Gods world, and they explore, with steady faith, all sides of this world. As a military veteran, Miles also centers his poetry amongst war. Through tone and voice, warfare permeates these poems, providing poetry that relies less on the traditional, Christian tension of doubt and shaken faith than on the inherent tension of a broken world. This resonant new collection melds deep-rooted spirituality with contemporary tensions, offering modern psalms for a tumultuous and uncertain age. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2017
ISBN 10: 1602233403ISBN 13: 9781602233409
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Alaskas perch at the geographic corner of civilization isnt all wilderness and reality TV. Theres a darker side too. Above the 49th parallel some of the nations highest rates of alcoholism, suicide, and violent crime can be found. While it can easy to write off or even romanticize these statistics as the product of a lingering Wild West culture, talking with real Alaskans reveals a different story. Journalist Mary Kudenov set out to find the true stories behind this end-of-the-road culture. Through her essays, we meet Alaskans who live outside the common adventurer narrative: a recent graduate of a court-sponsored sobriety program, a long-timer in the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center for women, a slum-landlords emancipated teenage daughter, and even a post-rampage spree killer. Her subjects struggle with poverty and middle-class aspirations, education and minimum wage work, God and psychology. The result is a raw and startling collection of direct, ground-level reporting that will leave you deeply moved. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2018
ISBN 10: 1602233527ISBN 13: 9781602233522
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the Quiet Season & Other Stories explores the human landscape of Alaska. While the stories take place in modern-day towns, each is laced with a timelessness that comes from their roots in ageless issues: broken trust and heartbreak, hope and rebirth. The expansive Alaska landscape infuses the stories with a unique chill, as tears freeze on eyelashes and mountain ranges form the backdrop for breakups. Although the people in Amores stories know how to survive Alaskas cold terrain, these characters stumble when trying to navigate through their own lives and lost dreams. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2020
ISBN 10: 1602234248ISBN 13: 9781602234246
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not only to map new places but also to map the most familiar ones, like home? Departures and returns in these essays derive in large part from the narrators personal experiences of cross-continental travel by pickup truck and by airplane, human-powered expedition-style travel by kayak, regional travel by ferry, and her daily or local travel on foot. But the movement of coming and going at the heart of this collection exceeds the physical, for these essays are also intent on understanding spiritual and psychological pulses of proximity and distance in human connections to other people, their stories, and their homes. "Leavetakings is a collection of personal essays that convey the writer's intimate connections with Alaska. The sections in Leavetakings are structured around water: Inland, Intertidal, Upriver, At Sea. Several essays grapple with loving stolen land, and loving wild landscapes in the face of development, degradation, and resource extraction"-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2019
ISBN 10: 1602233764ISBN 13: 9781602233768
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaskas Chugach Mountains. Be-Hooved, her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundingsstructured along the seasons and the migration patterns of the Porcupine Caribou Herdand are wrought with a fine and luminous language. Entrancing, profound, and startling, this book is a testament to hope before change, persistence before confusion, and empathy before difference: all the worlds light and all the worlds dark / can fit into an eye into a heart. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2013
ISBN 10: 1602231559ISBN 13: 9781602231559
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, The City Beneath the Snow is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans and a look at the moral decisions that lurk in the unexpected corners of daily life."Marjorie Kowalski Cole's characters live, work, and struggle in interior Alaska, and she depicts life here with a keen eye and with compassion. We see the daughter of a Fairbanks junkyard owner struggling with her isolation. We meet a bartender at Circle Hot Springs who's also a certified nurse's assistant at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. . . . These are inner lives, revealed with care and with skill, the true material of good literature."Peggy Shumaker, Alaska State Writer Laureate Offers a portrait of contemporary Alaskans and a look at the moral decisions that lurk in the unexpected corners of daily life. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2015
ISBN 10: 1602232709ISBN 13: 9781602232709
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pair of unlikely father figures. Years later her mother goes missing, and Winnie returns to the hunting and fishing lodge she grew up in to find the world she knew gone. Her once-powerful father disfigured by a bear attack. Her childhood hero revealed as merely human. And her mothers story rewritten by a stray note. As Winnie uses the help of friends to sort out the details of her mothers final exodus, she finds herself pulled into a murky swirl of family secrets and devastating revelations. As the search heads higher into the mountains, Winnie must learn to depend on her own strength in order to reach the one she loves. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2011
ISBN 10: 160223129XISBN 13: 9781602231290
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Julia Scully was nine years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were remanded to an orphanage. Two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny town of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise, she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra, while she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on the town after the outbreak of World War II. "Outside Passage" is a lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, simultaneously an emotional portrait of a young girl's first steps into adulthood and a unique portrait of a vanished frontier life. When Julia Scully was nine years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were remanded to an orphanage. This is a memoir of Julia Scully. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2019
ISBN 10: 1602233721ISBN 13: 9781602233720
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Water Mask is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two thousand feet above tundra with a rookie bush pilot; she negotiates the death of her father, and the near-loss of her familys cabin on the Copper River. Her journey is exhilaratingbut not without reminders of the folly of romanticizing a northern landscape that both rejects and beguiles. Reflections on family, place, and culture are woven into a seductive tapestry of a life well-lived and well-loved. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2008
ISBN 10: 1889963879ISBN 13: 9781889963877
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. When the ice he is sleeping on breaks up and floats away, Little Fox is accidentally transported to an island. As he explores his new home, he meets seabirds and fur seals and learns about their lives. Written and illustrated by a field biologist with years of experience in the Alaskan wilderness, The Little Fox introduces young readers to the animals of the Bering Seathe sounds they make, their unusual appearance, and their methods of surviving the short, intense arctic summer. When the ice that he is sleeping on breaks up and floats away, Little Fox is accidentally transported to an island. As he explores his new home, he meets seabirds and fur seals and learns about their lives. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2015
ISBN 10: 160223275XISBN 13: 9781602232754
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. People break my heart. Every single one of them does. In settings that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the stories of Cabin, Clearing, Forest are a lyrical road map to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In Blue Ticket, a stranger finds solace in a Juneau homeless encampment. Old friends argue over the pleasures and perils of small-town life in A Beginners Guide to Leaving Your Hometown, and in Every Island Longs for the Continent, a young family falls apart after moving to Kodiak. In these thirteen stories, Zach Falcon explores the burdens of familiarity and the pains of estrangement through characters struggling with their place in the world. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2015
ISBN 10: 160223261XISBN 13: 9781602232617
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Plash & Levitation delves into the chaotic sublime of fatherhood, the candid revelations of youth, and the lingering consequences of history. Adam Tavels revealing and imaginative poems are joined by fictional monologues from historical figures and cultural icons, juxtaposing personal history with our shared one. Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and rock legend Keith Moon are joined by musings from the Redskins logo and the Wolfman. Together they create a lively chorus that clashes and soars. The result is forty-two fascinating pieces that are witty, consistently musical, and undeniably powerfulthe perfect inaugural selection for the Permafrost Book Prize. Delving into the chaotic sublime of fatherhood, the revelations of youth, and the consequences of history, this book features poems that are joined by fictional monologues from historical figures and cultural icons, juxtaposing personal history with our shared one. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2018
ISBN 10: 1602233462ISBN 13: 9781602233461
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You might be in danger. Thirteen-year-old Booker leads a sheltered life in Vermontuntil a spellbinding relic throws him skidding into a world of magic and myths come to life. Anna is an Unangax teenager looking for answers after her long-absent mother reappears in her life. When a mysterious bookmark brings them together on the Aleutian Islands, theyre sent on a dangerous quest to return a magical amulet to Annas Unangan ancestors. As they adventure across islands that glow like moonstones, they cross paths with nineteenth-century chiefs, the mysterious Woman of the Volcano, and the sinister Real Raven. While their journey is tinged with the fantastic, its based in real depictions of Unangan culture and historythe first historical novel set in Unangan folklore. Its a coming-of-age-story that will resonate with young adult readers on their own journeys to discover their personal and cultural identities. Booker and his new friend Anna, a Unanga girl, use a magic bookmark to travel via books and stop a twenty-first century pirate who is taking artifacts from the Aleutian Islands . Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2020
ISBN 10: 1602234183ISBN 13: 9781602234185
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The athletes of the Alaska Native games arent just returning to their roots. Theyve never left them. In this beautifully illustrated book, readers learn the history of twenty-five Native games that have been handed down through generations, how each one relates to the subsistence lifestyle, and how you can try them yourself, regardless of where you live. As Tricia Nuyaqik Brown shows, even though todays competitions are a big media event in Alaska, the games themselves are really no different from those of long ago. Ancestral communities once pitted their strongest, their most agile, their fastest men and women against those from neighboring villages or tribal groups. Those games never died, but rather than gathering in a sod meeting place, competitions are now held in gyms and arenas. Each game today can be linked to some aspect of surviving in a harsh environment, of drawing sustenance from the land and sea. From the Seal Hop to the Bench Reach to the Four-Man Carry, these ancient games still require athletes to be in top physical condition and possess sharp mental focus. They hold dear the traditional Native values of honoring the elders, responsibility to tribe, sportsmanship, humor, patience, and hunter success. This book offers an engaging introduction to these games and their history, inviting people to jump in and try them for themselves! Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by University of Alaska Press, Farmington Hills, 2014
ISBN 10: 160223227XISBN 13: 9781602232273
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Paperback. Condition: new. Woodward, Kesler (illustrator). Paperback. Surrender to a wild river and unexpected things can happen. Time on the water can produce moments of pristine clarity or hatch wild thoughts, foster a deep connection with the real world or summon the spiritual.River of Light: A Conversation with Kabir is centered in one man's meditations and revelations while traveling on a river. John Morgan spent a week traveling the Copper River in Southcentral Alaska, and the resulting encounters form the heart of this book-length poem. The river's shifting landscape enriches the poem's meditative mood while currents shape the poem and the pacing of its lines. The mystic poet Kabir is Morgan's internal guide and serves as a divine foil through quiet stretches that bring to mind questions about war and human nature. Artwork by distinguished Alaska artist Kesler Woodward is a sublime companion to the text. A combination of adventurer's tale and spiritual quest, River of Light: A Conversation with Kabir takes the reader on a soulful journey that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal. Surrender to a wild river and unexpected things can happen. Time on the water can produce moments of pristine clarity or hatch wild thoughts, foster a deep connection with the real world or summon the spiritual. This book takes the reader on a soulful journey that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.