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Cold Latitudes
ISBN: PB: 9781602234376, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2021
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From s...
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£12,00
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Finding True North First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Build Modern Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234437, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Melting sea ice and simmering volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig got a job at the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner following journalism school. An environmentalist at heart,...
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£18,00
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Wake of the Unseen Object Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9781602234307, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 map
A series of journeys to Alaska's remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup'ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely conte...
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£18,00
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Guide to Peril Strait and Wrangell Narrows, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234000, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
150 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 6 maps, 5 charts, 10 halftones
Learning how to pilot a ship through Wrangell Narrows and Peril Strait is not an easy matter for a vessel operator new to the area, or even for those with experience. It takes time, patience, and a certain appetite for risk. The older generation of c...
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£24,00
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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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Northern Exposures An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images
ISBN: PB: 9781602231931, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
250 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 96 colour illus.
North of the sixtieth parallel parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this spec...
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£22,50
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Alaska on the Go Exploring the 49th State with Children
ISBN: PB: 9781602232211, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
Nearly two million people visit Alaska every year, drawn to its spectacular views and endless activities. But with such size and so many options, it can seem overwhelming when it comes to planning a family vacation to the 49th state. The best place t...
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£16,50
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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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Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans
ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones
Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...
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£15,00
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Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-1959
ISBN: PB: 9781602230712, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
267 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 2 graphs, 81 colour illus.
In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first of what has become...
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£19,00
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