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1 online resource (362 pages) |
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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 |
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16. On Crossing the Alaska Range17. 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 |
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35. The Alaskan Journal36. 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; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
""The spell of Alaska, "" Ella Higginson wrote in 1908, ""falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far northern snow-pearled shores ... or who has drifted down the mighty rivers of the interior which flow, bell-toned and lonely, to the sea ... No writer has ever described Alaska;no one writer ever will; but each must do his share, according to the spell that the country casts upon him."" 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 9, 2019) |
| Subject |
Natural history -- Alaska
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Natural history -- Yukon
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NATURE -- Essays.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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Natural history
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Alaska
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Yukon
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Murray, John A., 1954-
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| ISBN |
9781429415224 |
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1429415223 |
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