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Nature
Ecology
Tongass Odyssey Seeing the Forest Ecosystem through the Politics of Trees
Schoen John
ISBN: PB: 9781602234260, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 82 colour plates, 3 graphs, 3 maps
Tongass Odyssey is a biologist's memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation,...
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America
Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central
Koskey Michael, Lotvonen Varpu, Tyrell Laurel
ISBN: PB: 9781602233577, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2018
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables
The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they ar...
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America
Tanana Chiefs Native Rights and Western Law
Schneider William
ISBN: PB: 9781602233447, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 halftones
At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communicat...
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General
Threadbare Class and Crime in Urban Alaska
Kudenov Mary
ISBN: PB: 9781602233409, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2017
125 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Alaska's perch at the geographic corner of civilization isn't all wilderness and reality TV. There's a darker side too. Above the 49th parallel some of the nation's highest rates of alcoholism, suicide, and violent crime can be found. While it can ea...
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Biography & Memoires
To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey
Fischer Victor, Wohlforth Charles
ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm
Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...
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Biography & Memoires
History of Art
Ted Lambert The Man Behind the Paintings
Lambert Ted
ISBN: PB: 9781602231658, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 colour illus.
Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a co...
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Anthropology
Treadwell Gold An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin
Kelly Sheila
ISBN: PB: 9781602231184, ISBN: HB: 9781602230750, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
271 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 80 halftones
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and w...
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