Author: Janet R. Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961902612
Category : Cook Inlet (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Spans the millennium from the geologic origins of Kachemak Country to the late 1940s when the local communities were economically stable.
A History of Kachemak Bay
Author: Janet R. Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961902612
Category : Cook Inlet (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Spans the millennium from the geologic origins of Kachemak Country to the late 1940s when the local communities were economically stable.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961902612
Category : Cook Inlet (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Spans the millennium from the geologic origins of Kachemak Country to the late 1940s when the local communities were economically stable.
A History of Kachemak Bay
Author: Janet R.. Klein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook Inlet (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook Inlet (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Entangled
Author: Marilyn Sigman
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602233489
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth—from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon—in Alaska’s iconic Kachemak Bay. Kachemak Bay is a place where people and the living resources they depend on have ebbed and flowed for thousands of years. The forces of the earth are dynamic here: they can change in an instant, shaking the ground beneath your feet or overturning kayaks in a rushing wave. Glaciers have advanced and receded over centuries. The climate, like the ocean, has shifted from warmer to colder and back again in a matter of decades. The ocean food web has been shuffled from bottom to top again and again. In Entangled, Sigman contemplates the patterns of people staying and leaving, of settlement and displacement, nesting her own journey to Kachemak Bay within diasporas of her Jewish ancestors and of ancient peoples from Asia to the southern coast of Alaska. Along the way she weaves in scientific facts about the region as well as the stories told by Alaska’s indigenous peoples. It is a rhapsodic introduction to this stunning region and a siren call to protect the land’s natural resources in the face of a warming, changing world.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602233489
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth—from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon—in Alaska’s iconic Kachemak Bay. Kachemak Bay is a place where people and the living resources they depend on have ebbed and flowed for thousands of years. The forces of the earth are dynamic here: they can change in an instant, shaking the ground beneath your feet or overturning kayaks in a rushing wave. Glaciers have advanced and receded over centuries. The climate, like the ocean, has shifted from warmer to colder and back again in a matter of decades. The ocean food web has been shuffled from bottom to top again and again. In Entangled, Sigman contemplates the patterns of people staying and leaving, of settlement and displacement, nesting her own journey to Kachemak Bay within diasporas of her Jewish ancestors and of ancient peoples from Asia to the southern coast of Alaska. Along the way she weaves in scientific facts about the region as well as the stories told by Alaska’s indigenous peoples. It is a rhapsodic introduction to this stunning region and a siren call to protect the land’s natural resources in the face of a warming, changing world.
A History of Alaskan Athapaskans
Author: William E. Simeone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
"A history of Alaskan Athapaskans is a work which fills a gap in information about Athapaskans in Alaska, their culture, and their history. The book is divided into two parts: a description of Athapaskan culture as it was about the early to middle nineteenth century, and a historical narrative. This is a fascinating and informative book, useful for both scholar and lay person"--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
"A history of Alaskan Athapaskans is a work which fills a gap in information about Athapaskans in Alaska, their culture, and their history. The book is divided into two parts: a description of Athapaskan culture as it was about the early to middle nineteenth century, and a historical narrative. This is a fascinating and informative book, useful for both scholar and lay person"--Back cover.
Ocean Bay — Prehistory and Contact History at Afognak Bay
Author: Donald Woodforde Clark
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Excavations at three Ocean Bay culture sites at Ocean Bay and on Afognak Island bordering the Gulf of Alaska extend time depth to circa 4000 B.C. and gave a new technological dimension to a sub-area of the North Pacific where the previously known sequence had for 3,000 years emphasised ground slate technology.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Excavations at three Ocean Bay culture sites at Ocean Bay and on Afognak Island bordering the Gulf of Alaska extend time depth to circa 4000 B.C. and gave a new technological dimension to a sub-area of the North Pacific where the previously known sequence had for 3,000 years emphasised ground slate technology.
Alaska Native Culture and History
Author: Yoshinobu Kotani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Contributions covering ethnology, linguistics, and prehistory of native Alaskans.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Contributions covering ethnology, linguistics, and prehistory of native Alaskans.
A Stern and Rock-bound Coast
Author: Linda A. Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Last Wilderness
Author: Michael McBride
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938486371
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of a family who moved to Alaska to live off the land and build a life for themselves.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938486371
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of a family who moved to Alaska to live off the land and build a life for themselves.
Chasing Alaska
Author: C. B. Bernard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762794283
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. He soon learned that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C. B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals as guides, he threw himself into the state once known as Seward’s Folly, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the pristine environment, forming a landscape view of the place that had lured him and “Uncle Joe,” both men anchored beneath the Northern Lights in freezing, far-flung waters, separated only by time. Here, in crisp, crystalline prose, is his moving portrait of the Last Frontier, then and now.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762794283
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. He soon learned that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C. B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals as guides, he threw himself into the state once known as Seward’s Folly, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the pristine environment, forming a landscape view of the place that had lured him and “Uncle Joe,” both men anchored beneath the Northern Lights in freezing, far-flung waters, separated only by time. Here, in crisp, crystalline prose, is his moving portrait of the Last Frontier, then and now.