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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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Tongass Odyssey Seeing the Forest Ecosystem through the Politics of Trees
ISBN: PB: 9781602234260, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 82 colour plates, 3 graphs, 3 maps
Tongass Odyssey is a biologist's memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation,...
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£24,00
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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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Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home
ISBN: PB: 9781602233645, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"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. /...
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£11,00
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Coming Out of Nowhere Alaska Homestead Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781602233607, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
"The earth near our place/ was cradle, / it rocked us – /became our skin. / House doors opened, / spilled us out, /we disappeared into trees – /they clothed usin delirious green. /... We knew the song/ of this place, made it up, / sang it –" Homeste...
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£11,00
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Tanana Chiefs Native Rights and Western Law
ISBN: PB: 9781602233447, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 halftones
At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communicat...
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£26,50
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Entangled People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay
ISBN: PB: 9781602233485, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 4 halftones
Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth – from seals  to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon – in Alaska'...
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£13,00
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Worldviews of the Greenlanders An Inuit Arctic Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9781602233386, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
1150 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map
Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research...
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£49,00
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Kal'unek-from Karluk Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of the Karluk One Village Site
ISBN: HB: 9781602232440, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2015
350 pp., 29.3x24.1 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Karluk One is a remarkable archaeological site. For six hundred years, the Alutiiq built houses upon houses, preserving layer after layer of their ways of life. When fresh water from a nearby pond seeped through the deposit, the massive mound of cult...
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£37,50
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Ladder of Cranes
ISBN: PB: 9781602232570, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
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...
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£11,50
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