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The Last Light Breaking
Living Among Alaska's Inupiat
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Artikel-Nr:
9780882404585
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2007
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Nick Jans
Gewicht:
368 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nick Jans is one of Alaska's most recognized and prolific writers. A contributing editor to Alaska Magazine and a member of USA Today's board of editorial contributors, he's written several books, including A Place Beyond, and hundreds of magazine articles, and contributed to many anthologies. His range includes poetry, short fiction, literary essays, natural history, outdoor adventure, fishing, and political commentary. He has been the recipient of numerous writing awards including a Rasmuson Foundation artist grant. He currently lives in Juneau with his wife, Sherrie, and travels widely in Alaska. He returns each year to Ambler, the arctic Inupiaq Eskimo village in which he lived for 20 years, and the place he still calls "home."
From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people--the Inupiat Eskimos, an ancient culture on the cusp of change.Making a poignant connection between the world he describes and the world of the Inupiat once knew, Nick Jans invokes with stunning power the life of the Eskimos in the harsh arctic and the mystical aura of the wilderness of the far North.
Preface - 9, Acknowledgements - 11, Map - 12, Getting There - 17, Ambler Trading - 21, Black River Autumn - 33, Two Worlds, One Spirit - 41, My Last Grizzly - 53, Arctic Heroes - 65, The River of Their Passing - 83, Beat the Qaaviks - 91, Running with the Wolves - 101, A Place Beyond - 109, What They Leave Behind - 115, Sheefish Time - 125, The Old Man's Winter - 131, A Trip to the Store - 141, Housekeeping in the Northwest Arctic - 147, The Circle of the Kill - 161, A Good Thing - 165, Fire at Us! - 173, Traveling Like Clarence - 177, Sharing the Weight - 189, An Amulet of the Spirit - 197, A Place Called Red Dog - 201, The Last Light Breaking - 209, Epigraph Sources - 215, Suggested Reading - 218