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Author | : Samuel Hall Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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The autobiographical tales of an American missionary, naturalist, and explorer in the territory of Alaska.
Author | : S. Hall Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258869731 |
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This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Author | : Daniel Lee Henry |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1602233306 |
Download Across the Shaman's River Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The story of one of Alaska’s last Indigenous strongholds, shut off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and a naturalist. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had swept into other corners of the territory. This Native American tribe was viewed by European and American outsiders as the last wild tribe and a frustrating impediment to access. Missionaries and prospectors alike had widely failed to bring the Tlingit into their power. Yet, when naturalist John Muir arrived in 1879, accompanied by a fiery preacher, it only took a speech about “brotherhood”—and some encouragement from the revered local shaman Skandoo’o—to finally transform these “hostile heathens.” Using Muir’s original journal entries, as well as historic writings of explorers juxtaposed with insights from contemporary tribal descendants, Across the Shaman’s River reveals how Muir’s famous canoe journey changed the course of history and had profound consequences on the region’s Native Americans. “The product of three decades of thought, research, and attentive listening. . . . Henry shines a bright light on events that have long been shadowy, half-known. . . . Now, thanks to careful scholarship and his access to Tlingit oral history, we are given a different perspective on familiar events: we are inside the Tlingit world, looking out at the changes happening all around them.” —Alaska History
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1520 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Download The Publishers Weekly Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Julie Cruikshank |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774859768 |
Download Do Glaciers Listen? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting from European exploration and increased travel and trade among Aboriginal peoples. European visitors brought with them varying conceptions of nature as sublime, as spiritual, or as a resource for human progress. They saw glaciers as inanimate, subject to empirical investigation and measurement. Aboriginal oral histories, conversely, described glaciers as sentient, animate, and quick to respond to human behaviour. In each case, however, the experiences and ideas surrounding glaciers were incorporated into interpretations of social relations. Focusing on these contrasting views during the late stages of the Little Ice Age (1550-1900), Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes. She then traces how the divergent views weave through contemporary debates about cultural meanings as well as current discussions about protected areas, parks, and the new World Heritage site. Readers interested in anthropology and Native and northern studies will find this a fascinating read and a rich addition to circumpolar literature.
Author | : Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
Publisher | : Plunkett Lake Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1945, this biography won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946. Its author worked for twenty-two years on John Muir, including as secretary of the John Muir Association and as editor of Muir’s unpublished papers. She interviewed many family members and people who knew and worked with John Muir to produce this account of Muir’s life. She recounts Muir’s Scottish origins, his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, his remarkable mechanical aptitude and interest in botany and geology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he spent two and a half years before traveling to the Canadian wilderness, and then to California where he spent most of his life. “[A] well-balanced, informative and rewarding biography.” — Kirkus Reviews “Into this biography of John Muir, Mrs. Wolfe has packed an amazing amount of factual information which she has illuminated with a sober critical judgment that gives us a convincing portrait of the whole man.” — Francis P. Farquhar, Pacific Historical Review “Linnie Marsh Wolfe almost singlehandedly restored John Muir to the respectability and stature he always deserved... [Son of the Wilderness] should be on the reference shelves of anyone seriously interested in American environmental history.” — John Opie, Environmental History Review “[A]n interesting personal biography... [Wolfe] creates Muir as a living personality — mystical but athletic, enthusiastic about nature but socially abrupt — a sort of middle-aged Thoreau.” — Alexander Kern, Journal of American History “By immersing herself in Muir’s life, for example, by soaking in his correspondence and journals, [Wolfe] was able to craft what amounts to a first-person narrative, the autobiography he never wrote for himself.” — Char Miller, John Muir Newsletter
Author | : Morton Klass |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429982194 |
Download Across The Boundaries Of Belief Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book focuses on anthropological questions and methods, and is offered as a supplement to textbooks on the anthropology of religion. It is designed to help students collecting and interpreting their own fieldwork or archival data and relating their findings to the work of others.
Author | : Stephen W. Haycox |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295800372 |
Download An Alaska Anthology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples’ formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North’s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region’s pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the very best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and appreciation of its history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the more recent threat of nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission and the influence of oil money on inexperienced politicians. Readers may be familiar with an earlier anthology, Interpreting Alaska’s History, from which the present volume evolved to accommodate an explosion of research in the past decade. While a number of the original pieces were found to be irreplaceable, more than half of the essays are new. The result is a fresh perspective on the subject and an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and scholars.
Author | : California State Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1156 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
Download News Notes of California Libraries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780299139544 |
Download Letters from Alaska Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of letters published in the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin by naturalist Muir when he was exploring Alaska in 1879-80. He describes the natives and missionaries, gold mines and towns, mountains and glaciers, trees and wildlife, and other aspects. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR