The Wake Of The Unseen Object

Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781602234307

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The Wake of the Unseen Object by Tom Kizzia Pdf

A journey 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 contemporary individuals with deep longings and connection to the land and to their past. Tom Kizzia’s account of his travels off the Alaska road system, first published in 1991, has endured with a sterling reputation for its thoughtful, poetic, unflinching engagement with the complexity of Alaska’s rural communities. Wake of the Unseen Object is now considered some of the finest nonfiction writing about Alaska. This new edition includes an updated introduction by the author, looking at what remains the same after thirty years and what is different—both in Alaska, and in the expectations placed on a reporter visiting from another world.

Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Owl Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0805018603

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The Wake of the Unseen Object by Tom Kizzia Pdf

Describes the author's journey in the Alaskan bush, and examines how the bush cultures are adapting to the twentieth century

Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307587831

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Pilgrim's Wilderness by Tom Kizzia Pdf

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.

Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736755803

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Cold Mountain Path by Tom Kizzia Pdf

Author : Don Pitcher
Publisher : Moon Travel
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781612380636

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Moon Alaska by Don Pitcher Pdf

Travel writer and nature photographer Don Pitcher covers the best of Alaska, from fine dining in Anchorage to backpacking in Denali National Park. Pitcher also includes various travel strategies such as The Best of Alaska and Along the AlCan. Complete with details on where to view wildlife at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge and the best spots to kayak in Prince William Sound, Moon Alaska gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

Author : S. Elizabeth Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429969454

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Dressing In Feathers by S. Elizabeth Bird Pdf

One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that "Disney has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner." Their anger was rooted in the fact that, although Disney had claimed that the film's portrayal of American Indians would be "authentic," the Pocahontas story the movie told was really white cultural myth. The actual histories of the characters were replaced by mythic narratives depicting the crucial moments when aid was given to the white settlers. As reconstructed, the story serves to reassert for whites their right to be here, easing any lingering guilt about the displacement of the native inhabitants. To understand current imagery, it is essential to understand the history of its making, and these essays mesh to create a powerful, interconnected account of image creation over the past 150 years. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines and specialties, reveal the distortions and fabrications white culture has imposed on significant historical and current events, as represented by treasured artifacts such as photographic images taken of Sitting Bull following his surrender, the national monument at the battlefield of Little Bighorn, nineteenth-century advertising, the television phenomenon Northern Exposure, and the film Dances with Wolves. Well illustrated, this volume demonstrates the complacency of white culture in its representation of its troubled relationship with American Indians.

Author : William G. Robbins,James C. Foster
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295802893

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Land in the American West by William G. Robbins,James C. Foster Pdf

Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of “land” and “the West” have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essays in Land in the American West deal with complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land: Who owns it? Who has access to it? What happens when private rights infringe upon the public good, or when one ethnic group is pitted against another, or when there is a conflict between economic and environmental values? Many of these questions have deep historical roots. They all have special significance in the modern American West, where natural resources are still abundant and large areas of land are federally owned.

Author : Daniel Lee Henry
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602233300

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Across the Shaman's River by Daniel Lee Henry Pdf

The story of one of Alaska’s last Indigenous strongholds, shut off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and a naturalist. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had swept into other corners of the territory. This Native American tribe was viewed by European and American outsiders as the last wild tribe and a frustrating impediment to access. Missionaries and prospectors alike had widely failed to bring the Tlingit into their power. Yet, when naturalist John Muir arrived in 1879, accompanied by a fiery preacher, it only took a speech about “brotherhood”—and some encouragement from the revered local shaman Skandoo’o—to finally transform these “hostile heathens.” Using Muir’s original journal entries, as well as historic writings of explorers juxtaposed with insights from contemporary tribal descendants, Across the Shaman’s River reveals how Muir’s famous canoe journey changed the course of history and had profound consequences on the region’s Native Americans. “The product of three decades of thought, research, and attentive listening. . . . Henry shines a bright light on events that have long been shadowy, half-known. . . . Now, thanks to careful scholarship and his access to Tlingit oral history, we are given a different perspective on familiar events: we are inside the Tlingit world, looking out at the changes happening all around them.” —Alaska History

Author : Owen K. Mason,William J. Neal,Orrin H. Pilkey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0822320193

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Living with the Coast of Alaska by Owen K. Mason,William J. Neal,Orrin H. Pilkey Pdf

Another shore book that suggests ways to cope, not only with disasters at the coast but with the frequent hazards encountered inland. Part of the Living with the Shore Series.

Author : Stephen W. Haycox
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746876

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Alaska by Stephen W. Haycox Pdf

Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peoples from Asia into the Americas and their contact with and accommodation to Western culture; the spread of European political economy to the New World; the expansion of American capitalism and culture; and the impacts of climate change. In this updated classic, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox surveys the state’s cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context. Tracing Alaska’s transformation from the early postcontact period through the modern era, Haycox explores the ever-evolving relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions that have dominated the area, highlighting Native agency, advocacy, and resilience. Throughout, he emphasizes the region’s systemic dependence on both federal support and outside corporate investment in natural resources—furs, gold, copper, salmon, oil—and offers a less romantic, more complex history that acknowledges the broader national and international contexts of Alaska’s past.

Author : Gregory W. Kimura
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781602231085

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Alaska at 50 by Gregory W. Kimura Pdf

In 2009 Alaska celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of U.S. statehood. To commemorate that milestone, Alaska at 50 brings together some of today’s most noteworthy and recognizable writers and researchers to address the past, present, and future of Alaska. Divided into three overarching sections—art, culture, and humanities; law, economy, and politics; and environment, people, and place—Alaska at 50 is written in highly accessible prose. Illustrations and photographs of significant artefacts of Alaska history enliven the text. Each contributor brings a strong voice and prescription for the next fifty years, and the resulting work presents Alaskans and the nation with an overview of Alaska statehood and ideas for future development.

Author : Gerald A. McBeath,Thomas A. Morehouse
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0803231202

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Alaska Politics & Government by Gerald A. McBeath,Thomas A. Morehouse Pdf

This book examines Alaska's character and the forces shaping it. Underlying their descriptions are the themes of independence, dependence, and the search for sustainable economic development.

Author : Peter Whitridge,Erica Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003811015

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Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North by Peter Whitridge,Erica Hill Pdf

This volume provides fresh insight into northern human–animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human–animal studies. It surveys recent archaeological research in northern North America and Eurasia that frames human–animal relations as not merely economically exploitative but often socially complex and deeply meaningful, and attuned to the intelligence and agency of nonhuman prey and domesticates. The case studies sample a wide swath of the circumpolar region, from Alaska, Nunavut, and Greenland to northern Fennoscandia and western Siberia, and span sites, finds, and scenarios ranging in age from the Mesolithic to the twenty-first century. Many taxa on which northern lives hinged figure in these analyses, including large marine mammals, polar bear, reindeer, marine fish, and birds, and are variously approached from relational, multispecies, semiotic, osteobiographical, and political economic perspectives. Animals themselves are represented by osteological remains, harvesting gear, and depictions of animal bodies that include zoomorphic figurines, petroglyphs, ornamentation, and intricate portrayals of human–animal harvesting encounters. Far from settling the problem of how archaeologists should approach northern human–animal relations, these chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of northern worlds and highlight the diversity of human and nonhuman animal lives. This book will be of particular interest to northern archaeologists and zooarchaeologists, and all those interested in the possibilities of a multispecies approach to the archaeological record.

Author : Karen Jettmar
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780897329576

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Alaska River Guide by Karen Jettmar Pdf

The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea. This guide profiles a wide variety of rivers from all over Alaska, concentrating on trips for intermediate boaters, and including a few major expeditions for the experienced river-runner. A section on gear outlines what to take into the backcountry.

Author : Bill Sherwonit,Andromeda Romano-Lax,Ellen Bielawski
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781609520724

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Travelers' Tales Alaska by Bill Sherwonit,Andromeda Romano-Lax,Ellen Bielawski Pdf

In Travelers' Tales Alaska, contemporary adventurers, seekers, and lifelong Alaskans take you into the "Last Frontier" for wild and poignant adventures. Walk among bears, witness the Inupiat taking of a bowhead whale, and spend time "weathered-in" on the Bering Sea coast. Follow the seasons of commercial fisherfolk in the world's most dangerous seas, sail the Inside Passage, or flight-see with bush pilots famed for high-stakes navigation around Denali, North America's highest mountain. Discover the 49th state’s quirky side, including an entire town that lives in a single World War II-vintage high-rise, a "Hairy Man" who roams the Bush, and backcountry gourmands who communicate with edible plants. Drive the Alaska Highway or head north along the pipeline Haul Road to the Arctic coast, not simply to get there, but to be there. Get the inside view as Alaskans share their stories of learning a new land or guiding tourists through Native culture. Whether you choose camping at Wal-Mart or casting for grayling on a lake named Paradise, whether you travel the Great Land in actuality or in your armchair, these stories bring Alaska alive, in all its latter-day complexity and glory.