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Shem Pete's Alaska The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina
ISBN: PB: 9781602233065, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2017
432 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 27 colour plates, 324 halftones, 66 maps
Shem Pete (1896-1989), a colorful and brilliant raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a rich legacy of knowledge about the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina world. Shem was one of the most versatile storytellers and historians in twentieth century Ala...
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£30,00
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Coast Beyond Compare Coastal Geology and Ecology of Southern Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9780981661841, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
350 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 183 colour plates, 9 halftones
The southern coast of Alaska stretches over six hundred miles, its sweeping crescent studded with glaciers and beaches that connect temperate rainforest to frozen islands. While its soaring beauty attracts thousands of visitors a year, it also hides...
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£22,50
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Melting the Ice Curtain The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9781602233348, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 1 map
Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988...
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£22,50
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Critical Norths Space, Nature, Theory
ISBN: PB: 9781602233195, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables
For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...
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£34,00
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Biggest Damned Hat Tales from Alaska's Territorial Lawyers and Judges
ISBN: PB: 9781602233171, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
220 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters – prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, the...
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£19,00
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Alaska on the Go Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System with Children
ISBN: PB: 9781602233157, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps
Every year, nearly two million tourists visit Alaska, and at least half of them spend time exploring the state's waterways. For families that want to do so in a more independent fashion than a cruise ship or guided tour would allow, Erin Kirkland has...
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£16,50
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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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Creative Alaska A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013
ISBN: HB: 9781602232853, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates
Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...
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£37,50
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Placing John Haines
ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...
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£26,50
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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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