The Alaska reader : voices from the north / edited by Anne Hanley and Carolyn Kremers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanley, Anne.

Kremers, Carolyn, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Alaska.

American literature.

Alaska--Literary collections.

Alaska.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than 1.3 million people visit Alaska each year to experience its unique history, abundant wildlife, diverse cultures, and natural beauty. This book enriches that experience. Here is a collection of authentic voices, oral and written, that depicts Alaska with intelligence, integrity, and authenticity. Encompassing classic and contemporary writers and storytellers-established and new, insiders and outsiders-this anthology includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and oral tradition. Several books that have recently gained national attention are highlighted: Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves, Marjo

Contents:

Children of dreamers: from Ordinary wolves / Seth Kantner

1972: Moving to Alaska to open a meat shop / Arlitia Jones

Snobs / Jean Anderson

Fire / Linda Schandelmeier

from Road song / Natalie Kusz

from Correcting the landscape / Marjorie Kowalski Cole

from Johnny's girl / Kim Rich

Taking risks, confronting consequences: from Man made cold by the universe / Sherry Simpson

Quitter / Robert Service

from Coming into the country / John McPhee

from Old Yukon / James Wickersham

Sign on a cabin in the caribou hills / Arlitia Jones

from Tracks of the unseen / Nick Jans

from Rowing to latitude / Jill Fredston

from Wager with the wind: Don Sheldon story / James Greiner

To build a fire / Jack London

Transformations: Man who swam with beavers / Nancy Lord

Man who spent the winter with bears / Jennie Masruana Jackson

Fairy tale / Sheila Nickerson

Qadanalchen's song / Peter Kalifornsky

from Peter Kalifornsky's dream /Alan S. Boraas

Entering the surroundings / Ann Fox Chandonnet

Grandpa Jakwteen in eclipse / Nora Marks Dauenhauer

What whales and infants know / Kimberley Cornwall

Rowing toward the spirit world / Tom Sexton

Naming and unnaming: from Alaska wilderness / Robert Marshall

Grandmama's visit / June McGlashan Dirks

from Place of the pretend people: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo village / Carolyn Kremers

Not to talk bad of the weather / Jerah Chadwick

from Stars, the snow, the fire / John Haines

Cross talk / Nora Marks Dauenhauer

There is no word for goodbye / Mary TallMountain

What to bring for the next century / Joseph Enzweiler

Finding self and spirit: Homestead / John Haines

from Travels in Alaska / John Muir

Braided river / Peggy Shumaker

Why subsistence is a matter of cultural survival: Yup'ik point of view / John Active

December: for spirit / John Morgan

from Bamboo fly rod suite: reflections on fishing and the geography of grace / Frank Soos

Feminine and masculine unbound: Nawalaskam agagaa: Woman of Ounalashka / Jerah Chadwick

from Working on the edge: surviving in the world's most dangerous profession: King crab fishing on Alaska's high seas / Spike Walker

Harry / Phoebe Newman

from Raising ourselves / Velma Wallis

Love song / Semyon Pan'kov

from Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington

from Cold day for murder / Dana Stabenow

Alaska as a parable for the future: from Firecracker boys / Dan O'Neill

from Whale and the supercomputer / Charles Wohlforth

from Moonlight at midday / Sally Carrighar

from Shadow of the hunter / Richard K. Nelson

Last wolf / Mary TallMountain

from Two in the far North / Margaret E. Murie

from tales of Alaska's bush rat governor: Extraordinary autobiography of Jay Hammond, wilderness guide and reluctant politician / Jay Hammond

Requiem for the Arctic refuge / John Haines

Next chapter / Howard Weaver

For the sake of the light / Tom Sexton

Contributors

Permissions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-46767-0

9786612467677

1-55591-807-7

OCLC:

609853813