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City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914-1941
ISBN: PB: 9781602230842, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
214 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the U. S. Navy was engaged with Japan. Decades later, during...
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£20,50
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Cold Flashes Literary Snapshots of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602230934, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones
As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred". The selections in "Cold Flashes" – very short prose and black-and-white photographs – embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highl...
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£16,50
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Changing Arctic Landscape
ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.
With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...
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£26,50
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