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The city beneath the snow : stories
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ISBN: 1602231567 9781602231566 9781602231382 1602231389 9781602231559 1602231559 9781602231832 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press,

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The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, The City Beneath the Snow is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans and a look at the moral decisions that lurk in the unexpected corners of daily life.""Marjorie Kowalski Cole's characters live, work, and struggle in interior Alaska, and she depicts life here with a keen eye and with compassion. We see the daughter of a Fairbanks junkyard owner struggling with her isolation. We meet a bartender at Circle Hot Springs who's also a certified nurse's assistant at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. ... These are inner lives


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The fur farms of Alaska : two centuries of history and a forgotten stampede
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ISBN: 1602231729 9781602231726 9781602231719 1602231710 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press,

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After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being started in Alaska within a few years. The Great Depression, and later the development of warm, durable, and lightweight synthetic materials during World War II, brought further decline and eventual failure to the industry as the postwar economy of Alaska turned to defense and later to oil. The Fur Farms of Alaska brings this history to life b.


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Among wolves : Gordon Haber's insights into Alaska's most misunderstood animal
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ISBN: 1602232199 9781602232198 9781602232181 1602232180 Year: 2013 Publisher: Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press,

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Alaska's wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali's wolves. He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber's writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups, and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With the wolves at risk of bei.

So They Understand
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ISBN: 0874215501 9786612490477 1282490478 0874214882 9780874214888 9780874215502 Year: 2002 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives. The title of the book comes from a quotation by Chief Peter John, the traditional chief of the Tanana Chiefs region in central Alaska: ""In between the lines is something special going on in their minds, and that has--

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Oral tradition. --- Oral history. --- Tradition, Oral --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Methodology --- South Africa --- Alaska --- Yukon --- Юкан --- I︠U︡kan --- Юкон --- I︠U︡kon --- Γιούκον --- Gioukon --- Jukonio --- Jukona --- Jukonas --- Јукон --- Jukon --- ユーコン準州 --- Yūkon junshū --- ユーコン --- Jukons --- 育空 --- Yu kong --- Yukong --- Yukon Territory --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-kâ --- AK --- Alaasika --- ʻĀlaka --- Alasca --- Alasijia --- Alasijia Zhou --- Alaska Eyâleti --- Alaska osariik --- Alasḳah --- Alasko --- Alaszka --- Ali︠a︡sk --- Ali︠a︡ska --- Aljaška --- Allaesŭkʻa --- Allaesŭkʻa-ju --- Allaesŭkʻaju --- Alyaska --- Alyaska Shitati --- Arasuka --- Arasuka-shū --- Arasukashū --- Civitas Alascae --- Estado de Alaska --- Estado ng Alaska --- Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo --- Medinat Alasḳah --- Politeia tēs Alaska --- Russian America --- Russkai︠a︡ Amerika --- Shtat Ali︠a︡ska --- State of Alaska --- Statul Alaska --- Territory of Alaska --- Πολιτεία της Αλάσκα --- Αλάσκα --- Аљаска --- Аляск --- Аляска --- Алјаска --- Русская Америка --- Штат Аляска --- אלאסקע --- אלסקה --- מדינת אלסקה --- アラスカ --- アラスカ州 --- 阿拉斯加 --- 阿拉斯加州 --- 알래스카 --- 알래스카 주 --- 알래스카주 --- Africa, South --- Alaska Territory


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Rock, water, wild : an Alaskan life
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ISBN: 1282423851 9786612423857 0803226098 9780803226098 9780803225152 0803225156 9781282423855 6612423854 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America "big and wild enough to hold the intact landscapes and the dreams that are so absent today from almost everywhere else." In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural w

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Outdoor life --- Country life --- Natural history --- Nature --- Human ecology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Rural life --- Manners and customs --- Camping --- Sports --- Effect of human beings on --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Lord, Nancy. --- Lord, Nancy --- Travel --- Alaska --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-kâ --- AK --- Alaasika --- ʻĀlaka --- Alasca --- Alasijia --- Alasijia Zhou --- Alaska Eyâleti --- Alaska osariik --- Alasḳah --- Alasko --- Alaszka --- Ali︠a︡sk --- Ali︠a︡ska --- Aljaška --- Allaesŭkʻa --- Allaesŭkʻa-ju --- Allaesŭkʻaju --- Alyaska --- Alyaska Shitati --- Arasuka --- Arasuka-shū --- Arasukashū --- Civitas Alascae --- Estado de Alaska --- Estado ng Alaska --- Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo --- Medinat Alasḳah --- Politeia tēs Alaska --- Russian America --- Russkai︠a︡ Amerika --- Shtat Ali︠a︡ska --- State of Alaska --- Statul Alaska --- Territory of Alaska --- Πολιτεία της Αλάσκα --- Αλάσκα --- Аљаска --- Аляск --- Аляска --- Алјаска --- Русская Америка --- Штат Аляска --- אלאסקע --- אלסקה --- מדינת אלסקה --- アラスカ --- アラスカ州 --- 阿拉斯加 --- 阿拉斯加州 --- 알래스카 --- 알래스카 주 --- 알래스카주 --- Description and travel. --- Environmental conditions. --- Description and travel --- Alaska Territory


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Hyperboreal
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ISBN: 0822979144 9780822979142 9780822962625 0822962624 Year: 2013 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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Hyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture. It concerns King Island, the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. The poems work towards the assembly of an identity, both collective and singular, that is capable of looking forward from the recollection and impact of an entire community's relocation to distant and arbitrary urban centers. Through language, Hyperboreal grants forum to issues of displacement, lack of access to traditional lands and resources and loss of family that King Island people-and all Inuit-are contending with.


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Cold flashes : literary snapshots of Alaska
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ISBN: 1602230943 9781602230941 9781602230934 1602230935 Year: 2010 Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press,

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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 highly polished micro-narratives, both fiction and nonfiction, and a series of eloquent and artistic halftones that capture their sizeable subjects in a nutshell. By minimizing the exposition, the selections stimulate the imagination to reflect on the rich diversity of people and places that make up Alaska. To be savored piecemeal at coffee shops, on the bu.


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The cormorant hunter's wife : poems
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ISBN: 1602231583 9781602231580 9781602231573 1602231575 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fairbanks [Alaska] : University of Alaska Press,

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This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Iñupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural conditions of the Arctic and sub-Arctic that have been home to her ancestors for tens of thousands of years, while the poems' speakers refer to an indigenous identity that has become increasingly plural. The author's perspective as a Native person affords her unique insight into the relationship with place and self, which she applies in her co.


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Boots, bikes, and bombers : adventures of Alaska conservationist Ginny Hill Wood
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ISBN: 1602231745 9781602231740 9781602231733 1602231737 Year: 2012 Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press,

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Boots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to co-found Camp Denali, Alaska's first wilderness ecotourism lodge; helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state's first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction a.

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Women conservationists --- Conservationists --- Women adventurers --- Wilderness areas --- Oral history --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Adventurers, Women --- Adventure and adventurers --- Environmentalists --- Women environmentalists --- Methodology --- Wood, Ginny. --- Wood, Ginny --- Wood, Virginia Hill --- Hill, Virginia, --- Travel. --- Camp Denali --- History. --- Alaska --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-kâ --- AK --- Alaasika --- ʻĀlaka --- Alasca --- Alasijia --- Alasijia Zhou --- Alaska Eyâleti --- Alaska osariik --- Alasḳah --- Alasko --- Alaszka --- Ali︠a︡sk --- Ali︠a︡ska --- Aljaška --- Allaesŭkʻa --- Allaesŭkʻa-ju --- Allaesŭkʻaju --- Alyaska --- Alyaska Shitati --- Arasuka --- Arasuka-shū --- Arasukashū --- Civitas Alascae --- Estado de Alaska --- Estado ng Alaska --- Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo --- Medinat Alasḳah --- Politeia tēs Alaska --- Russian America --- Russkai︠a︡ Amerika --- Shtat Ali︠a︡ska --- State of Alaska --- Statul Alaska --- Territory of Alaska --- Πολιτεία της Αλάσκα --- Αλάσκα --- Аљаска --- Аляск --- Аляска --- Алјаска --- Русская Америка --- Штат Аляска --- אלאסקע --- אלסקה --- מדינת אלסקה --- アラスカ --- アラスカ州 --- 阿拉斯加 --- 阿拉斯加州 --- 알래스카 --- 알래스카 주 --- 알래스카주 --- Description and travel. --- Environmental conditions. --- Description and travel --- Alaska Territory

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