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Finding True North First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Build Modern Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234437, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Melting sea ice and simmering volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig got a job at the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner following journalism school. An environmentalist at heart,...
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£18,00
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Fighter in Velvet Gloves Study Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781602234451, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1945, Elizabeth Peratrovich stood before the Alaska Territorial Legislative Session and gave a powerful speech about her childhood and her experiences being treated as a second-class citizen. Her heartfelt testimony led to the passing of the landm...
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£8,00
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Field Guide to Snow
ISBN: PB: 9781602234147, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
140 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates
People love snow. They love to ski and sled on it, snowshoe through it, and watch it fall from the sky. They love the way it blankets a landscape, making it look tranquil and beautiful. Few people, however, know how snow works. What makes it possible...
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£20,00
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Fighter in Velvet Gloves Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich
ISBN: PB: 9781602233706, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
"No Natives or Dogs Allowed", blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after becoming a seasoned fighter for equality, she would d...
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£13,00
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Fresh Alaska Cookbook
ISBN: HB: 9781602233591, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2018
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 63 colour plates
What's for dinner tonight? Is it something shaken from a bag or peeled from a plastic tray? Or is it flaky, fresh salmon paired with rhubarb-berry agua fresca? Alaska Native chef Rob Kinneen is out to revolutionize how Alaskans – and the world – see...
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£30,00
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Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602232662, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 4 photos, 10 figures
With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Inupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and...
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£19,00
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Fur Farms of Alaska Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede
ISBN: PB: 9781602231719, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2012
230 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 50 halftones
After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being s...
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£22,50
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Frontier Romance Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity
ISBN: PB: 9781602231894, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2012
90 pp., 23x15 cm
Anyone curious about what drew people like Christopher McCandless (the subject of "Into the Wild") and John Muir to Alaska will find nuanced answers in "Frontier Romance", Judith Kleinfeld's thoughtful study of the iconic American love of the frontie...
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£13,50
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Finding the Arctic History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay
ISBN: PB: 9781602231634, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 maps, 193 colour illus.
The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In "Finding the Arctic", the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects...
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£19,00
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Flight of the Golden Plover The Amazing Migration Between Hawaii and Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602231511, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
32 pp., 20.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.
The remarkable story of the golden plover's annual migration, this beautifully illustrated nature title for young readers sees the small but mighty plover embark on a six-thousand-mile flight between the frozen Alaska tundra and gentle grassy slopes...
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£9,00
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