The way winter comes : Alaska stories / Sherry Simpson ; photographs by Charles Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Sherry.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simpson, Sherry.

Alaska--Description and travel.

Alaska.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Sanders, Val (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 164 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books, c1998.

Summary:

Winner of the 1997 Chinook Literary Prize, Sherry Simpson's debut collection of essays manifests an original and distinctive vision of Alaska and signals the arrival of an uncommonly accomplished new writer. Simpson is a true Alaskan who lives all of the adventures and traverses the wild places of her essays. Her subjects range from a sobering introduction to the ways of trapping in "Killing Wolves" to a meditation on the terror of disappearing into the Alaskan outback in "The Book of Being Lost". With a clear-eyed, unsentimental appreciation of the great northern place, this writer expresses a commanding view of Alaska.

Contents:

Killing wolves

The way winter comes

Where bears walk

Natural history, or What happens when we're not looking

Telling raven stories

On the island of desire

Strange grace

The book of being lost.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("Val Sanders 2-15-99") on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

1570611467

9781570611469

OCLC:

39291689