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Cabin 135 A Memoir of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234208, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which wer...
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£16,00
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Water Mask
ISBN: PB: 9781602233720, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"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...
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£13,00
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Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole
ISBN: PB: 9781602233805, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflectio...
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£15,00
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In Wild Trust Larry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown Bears
ISBN: HB: 9781602233232, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2017
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 colour plates, 3 maps
For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping of brown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a manager...
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£25,00
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Secret Life of a Black Aspie A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781602233218, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story. For the first four years of his life, Prahlad didn't speak. But his silence didn't stop...
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£16,50
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Wealth Woman Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold
ISBN: PB: 9781602232778, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2016
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps
With the first headlines screaming "Gold! Gold! Gold!" in 1896, the Klondike Gold Rush was on – and it almost instantly became the stuff of legend. One of the key figures in the early discoveries that set off the gold rush was the Tagish wife of pros...
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£18,50
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Our Perfect Wild Ray & Barbara Bane's Journeys and the Fate of Far North
ISBN: PB: 9781602232785, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 colour plates, 2 maps
Ray and Barbara Bane worked as teachers in Barrow and Wainwright, Alaska, in the early 1960s – but they didn't simply teach the children of their Ia±upiat Eskimo and Koyukon friends and neighbors: they fully embraced their lifestyle. Doing so, they r...
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£18,50
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Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat
ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...
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£15,00
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To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey
ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm
Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...
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£15,00
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£21,00
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Boots, Bikes, and Bombers Adventures of Alaska Conservationist Ginny Hill Wood
ISBN: PB: 9781602231733, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 120 halftones
"Boots, Bikes, and Bombers" presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military...
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£22,50
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