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Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones
This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...
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£27,00
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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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Made of Salmon Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project
ISBN: PB: 9781602232839, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates
All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon population...
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£16,50
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More Than God Demands Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918
ISBN: PB: 9781602232938, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 map
Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples – and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Estab...
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£37,50
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Married to the Empire Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864
ISBN: HB: 9781602232648, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map
The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst...
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£37,50
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Mary's Wild Winter Feast
ISBN: PB: 9781602232327, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
40 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
When winter rain washes away Mary's chances for a sledding day, she thinks there is no hope for excitement. But with a little imagination and a brimming pantry she soon finds herself caught up in a colorful journey. Together with her father she reliv...
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£11,50
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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...
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£26,50
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My Wrangell Mountains
ISBN: HB: 9781602231368, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
225 pp., 23x30.5 cm, 350 colour illus.
High atop cascading waterfalls and deep within the lush green depths of the valleys, Swiss photographer Ruedi Homberger has for more than twenty years captured in photographs the majestic beauty of eastern Alaska's Wrangell Mountain range. In additio...
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£37,50
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