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Changing Arctic Landscape
ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.
With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...
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£26,50
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Ultimate Americans Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909
ISBN: PB: 9781602230385, ISBN: HB: 9781602230279, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
368 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones
The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, "Ultimate Americans" examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Al...
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£28,00
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£40,00
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Recent Mammals of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602230729, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
399 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 110 maps, 50 line illus.
From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehen...
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£34,00
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Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist
ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones
Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...
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£15,00
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Aleutian Ethnography
ISBN: PB: 9781602230392, ISBN: HB: 9781602230286, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones
Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries, and now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. Turner's admittedly fragmentary ethnogra...
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£20,50
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£36,00
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Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-1959
ISBN: PB: 9781602230712, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
267 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 2 graphs, 81 colour illus.
In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first of what has become...
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£19,00
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Sea Woman Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic
ISBN: PB: 9781602230118, ISBN: HB: 9781602230262, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
160 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.
This study offers an in-depth examination of the role of shamanism in modern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans derived their healing skills and power over natural elements from their ability to communicate with supernatural beings, such as Sedna t...
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£22,50
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£40,00
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Point Hope, Alaska Life on Frozen Water
ISBN: HB: 9781602230651, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2009
204 pp., 27.9x25 cm, 192 halftones
This book is a window to the daily life and the environment of the Tikigaq, the Inupiaq people of "Point Hope, Alaska", as seen in photographs taken by young Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote from 1959 to 1962. In Berit Foote's days in Point Hope...
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£49,00
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Giinaquq Like a Face Suqpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago
ISBN: PB: 9781602230491, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2009
200 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 240 colour plates
Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been...
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£20,50
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Art and Eskimo Power The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock
ISBN: PB: 9781602230217, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2008
258 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, black and white photos
At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people fro...
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£13,00
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