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Literary Criticism

Leavetakings Essays

Cook Corinna

ISBN: PB: 9781602234246, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not onl...

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Anthropology

Life at Swift Water Place Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact

Anderson Doug D., Anderson Wanni W.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233683, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
400 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 130 halftones

This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in th...

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Poetry

Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home

Sexton Tom

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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Children's Books

Little Whale A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe

Peratrovich Roy A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232952, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 line illus., 1 map

Keet, a ten-year-old Tlingit Indian boy, stows away for a voyage on his father's canoe... and soon finds himself caught in the middle of a wild seastorm. The story carries him far from his home village, and when he makes land, he winds up right in th...

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Nature

Life and Times of a Big River An Uncommon Natural History of Alaska's Upper Yukon

Marchand Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232471, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, eighty million acres were flagged as possible national park land. Field expeditions were tasked with recording what was contained in these vast acres. Under this decree, five...

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Poetry

Ladder of Cranes

Sexton Tom

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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Children's Books

Lucy's Dance

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602231269, ISBN: HB: 9781602231276, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
29 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 18 colour illus.

A charming children's book about the return of traditional dancing to one Yup'ik village, "Lucy's Dance" tells the story of a little girl who is determined to help her grandfather demonstrate for the people of the town the beauty and complexity of ol...

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Nature

Land of Extremes A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska

Huryn Alexander, Hobbie John

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...

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Biography & Memoires

Land Beyond A Memoir

Ives Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602230774, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
186 pp., 23x15 cm, 52 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and work...

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