Keywords:
Natural history -- Alaska.
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Natural history -- Yukon.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 are major figures--John Muir, Jack London, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, and Edward Abbey--but we also discover the voices of missionaries, explorers, mountain-climbers, Native Americans, miners, scientists, backpackers, and fishermen, each trying to capture something of the beauty of this still pristine land, to render in their own words the spell that the country casts upon them. Most of these selections have never appeared in any anthology and some entries--particularly those written by early American and Russian explorers--have never been available to general readers. There is laughter here and there is sorrow, but finally there is communion and liberation as generation after generation encounter the unsurpassed beauty and wildness of the Arctic. Taken together, these forty-eight men and women provide a unique portrait of America's final frontier.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780199728763
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=270896
DDC:
508.798
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: 1741-1866: Russian America and the Age of Exploration -- 1. The Sea Cow -- 2. The Bering Straits -- 3. Observations on Unalashka -- 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 Unalashka 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S.
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