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Alutiit/Sugpiat A Catalog of the Collections of the Kunstkamera
ISBN: HB: 9781602231771, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2012
440 pp., 29x24 cm, 654 colour illus.
This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867...
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£37,50
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Land of Extremes A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602231818, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2012
311 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 620 colour illus.
This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the...
PB:
£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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Skijor with Your Dog
ISBN: PB: 9781602231863, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2012
318 pp., 25x15 cm
Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone – and almost any breed of dog – can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this po...
PB:
£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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Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People
ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones
"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...
PB:
£26,50
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Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan Through the Northwest Passage
ISBN: PB: 9781602231696, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
215 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 25 halftones
In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Propos...
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£19,00
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On Time Delivery The Dog Team Mail Carriers
ISBN: PB: 9781602231672, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 50 halftones
From the turn of the twentieth century in interior Alaska, dog team mail carriers were charged with maintaining the trail systems and carrying the mail until they were replaced in the late 1930s and '40s by airplane mail service. With the advent and...
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£19,00
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Cormorant Hunter's Wife
ISBN: PB: 9781602231573, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
76 pp., 23x15 cm
This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Inupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural co...
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£11,50
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Raven and River
ISBN: PB: 9781602231504, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
32 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.
"Raven and River" leads young readers on a fantastical journey with a raven across the icy Alaska landscape on the verge of spring. Along the way, the raven's sonorous cry wakes a cast of sleeping woodland creatures, including a bear, a beaver, a har...
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£9,00
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