A Republic of rivers : three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon / edited by John A. Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, John A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Alaska.

Natural history.

Natural history--Yukon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""The spell of Alaska,"" Ella Higginson wrote in 1908, ""falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far northern snow-pearled shores...or who has drifted down the mighty rivers of the interior which flow, bell-toned and lonely, to the sea....No writer has ever described Alaska;no one writer ever will; but each must do his share, according to the spell that the country casts upon him."" In A Republic of Rivers, John Murray offers the first comprehensive anthology of nature writing in Alaska and the Yukon, ranging from 1741 to the present. Many of the writers found here

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: 1741-1866: Russian America and the Age of Exploration""; ""1. The Sea Cow""; ""2. The Bering Straits""; ""3. Observations on Unalaska""; ""4. Prince William Sound""; ""5. Arrival at the Arctic Coast""; ""6. St. Lawrence Island""; ""7. The Bering Straits""; ""8. The Pribilof Islands""; ""9. Notes on the Copper River""; ""10. Notes on the Islands of the Unalaska District""; ""11. Nulato, a Settlement on the Yukon""; ""12. Letter to Sir John Richardson""; ""Part II: 1867-1958: Territorial Alaska and the Age of Exploitation""

""13. The Rapids of the Yukon""""14. The Pribilof Islands""; ""15. The Alexander Archipelago""; ""16. On Crossing the Alaska Range""; ""17. The Grand Canon of the Yukon""; ""18. The Gustavus Peninsula""; ""19. The Dominant Primordial Beast""; ""20. Gold Prospectors of the Susitna Valley""; ""21. Taku Inlet""; ""22. On the Sheep Ranges""; ""23. The Barren Grounds Grizzly Bear""; ""24. Koyukon Riddles""; ""25. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)""; ""26. The Kuskokwim River""; ""27. Eskimo Poems""; ""28. The North Fork of the Koyukuk""; ""29. The Wolves of Mount McKinley""

""Part III: 1959-1989: Alaskan Statehood and the Age of Environmentalism""""30. Other Days""; ""31. The Old Crow""; ""32. Glacier Bay Journal""; ""33. Sheenjek""; ""34. One Man's Wilderness""; ""35. The Alaskan Journal""; ""36. On Building a Raft""; ""37. Here I Am Yet!""; ""38. Lake Dwarves and Giant Rat""; ""39. An Expedition to the Pole""; ""40. The Subsistence Cycle""; ""41. Gather at the River""; ""42. Yukon-Charley: The Shape of Wilderness""; ""43. Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska: A Suite""; ""44. This Tangled Brilliance""; ""45. Haida Hunters and Legend of the Two Fin Killer Whale""

""46. Two Great Polar Bear Hunters""""47. The Cormorant Hunters""; ""48. Ragged Ear of Sable Pass""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-320) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-972876-3

1-280-52626-2

9786610526260

OCLC:

870242010