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Ends of the Earth Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781602233324, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2017
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Ends of the Earth" uses the landscape of Alaska as a testing ground for love and elegy. It is a poetry collection that contains both lyric responses to the urban Alaska environment and extended sequences that cycle between autobiography, mythic allu...
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£11,50
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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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Little Whale A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe
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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£12,50
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Exploring and Mapping Alaska The Russian America Era, 1741-1867
ISBN: HB: 9781602232518, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2015
450 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 maps
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia,...
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£60,00
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Overwinter
ISBN: PB: 9781602232532, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A debut collection from an exciting new voice in Alaska poetry, "Overwinter" reconciles the natural quiet of wilderness with the clamor of built environments. Jeremy Pataky's migration between Anchorage and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park inspires t...
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£11,50
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