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Author: Laura BUCHAN (and ALLEN (Jerry))Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Hearth in the Snow. [An Account of the Authors' Experiences as Settlers in Alaska. With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Laura BUCHAN (and ALLEN (Jerry))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author: Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryThe Last Settlers
Author: Jennifer BricePublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
When Jennifer Brice and Charles Mason began this project in 1991, examining the lives of two 20th century pioneer families in the Alaskan wilderness, neither realized that they were documenting the ending of American migration to the frontier. In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner declared the closing of the American frontier, because westering settlement was lapping at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. However, the federal Homestead Act remained in effect for nearly a century in Alaska, and in 1934 the Homesite Act was enacted, providing up to five acres of preselected land to settlers committed to living on it. In 1981, blocks of land totalling 30,000 acres near Lake Minchumina were opened to homesites, businesses and mineral leases. Two Years later, 10,250 acres in eastern Alaska, near the Ahtna village of Slana, were opened to settlement as well. Would-be settlers besieged the Fairbanks office of the Bureau of Land Management with letters and phone calls. Over time, however, the hype and the illusions have faded. Fewer than 100 people now make their homes on what is truly the last federal frontier. Of these few last settlers, two families, the Hannans and the Spears, are at the centre of this clear, unsentimental portrait of people whose daily existence is forged out of the crucible of myth. The wilderness surrounding Minchumina and Slana has little in common with conventional beauty, this book tells us. Some patches of it, as Brice says, look downright blighted, bringing to mind the prophet Jeremiah's description of wilderness that was desolate because no man layeth it to heart.' The Last Settlers is the story of unbeautiful land and the people who have laid it to heart.
Arctic Village. [An Account of a Sojourn in Arctic Alaska. With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Robert Marshall (Writer on Alaska.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A Place for Winter
Author: Paul TiulanaPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This biography of Paul Tiulana, an Alaskan Eskimo from King Island in the Bering Sea, is compiled from interviews conducted from 1978 by his friend and colleague, Vivian Senungetuk. Detailed captions and photographs accompany Tiulana's vivid recollections of childhood, family, and community. Paul Tiulana is the recognized traditional leader of the King Island Eskimo people. This noted storyteller, ivory carver, and honored elder tells his story against the backdrop of his early home and shares his views on a variety of subjects with an eye and an ear to helping all peoples understand each other and themselves.
Arctic Mood
Author: Eva Louise Alvey RichardsPublisher: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Description of north Alaska, and the Eskimo's life throughout the year, from the author's experiences while teaching at Wainwright, Alaska, 1924-26. Includes portraits and images of Eskimo culture and their environments. Also includes whaling images.
Our Alaskan Winter, etc. [With plates, including portraits.].
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Author: Constance HelmericksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description