The wake of the unseen object : travels through Alaska's native landscapes / Tom Kizzia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kizzia, Tom, author.

Series:

Classic Reprint

Classic reprint series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eskimos--Social life and customs.

Eskimos.

Travel.

Alaska.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, [2020]

Summary:

"When The Wake of the Unseen Object was published in 1991, I imagined it might reach readers as a work of "literary travel," a genre then filling the shelves at the front of bookstores. The understated arc of the book, after all, was the education of a traveler: his progress, from early awkward door-to-door questioning to a deeper understanding and sense of place. His lessons in paying attention and seeing the world as it is, unburdened by romanticism or its inverse, disillusion. His struggles to free himself from that peculiar little character who shows up briefly in Chapter Two, "the God of Things as They Ought to Be." This new edition of the book reproduces the text as it originally appeared, without corrections or updates. Terms such as "Eskimo" and "Indian," now subject to reconsideration but common and accepted in that day, remain in place, along with then-standard applications of the words "Inupiat" and "Inupiaq," as noun and adjective"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction to the new edition

1. Forest Primeval

2. Spirit World

3. People of Kauwerak

4. Return of the Native

5. Indian Country

6. Animal Powers

7. Red Devil

8. Icons

9. River People

10. Yupiit Nation

11. The Wake of the Unseen Object

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Edition:

Revision of: 0805014713 Kizzia, Tom. New York : H. Holt and Co., [1991]

ISBN:

9781602234314

1602234310

OCLC:

1227385164