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A Place Beyond
Finding Home in Arctic Alaska
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Artikel-Nr:
9780882408071
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2009
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Nick Jans
Gewicht:
246 g
Format:
216x139x15 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 nine books 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."
Nick Jans leads us into his "found" home --- the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure --- camping among the wolves, traveling with Inupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at spring breakup.
Acknowledgments - pg 7, Map pg - 8, Preface pg - 11, Grandpa's Ghost pg -15, Putyuq Always Get pg-21, Thin Water pg - 27, Sometimes Always Never pg 33, Gearhead Heaven pg - 39, One of Us pg - 45, A State of Mind pg - 51, The Only Game pg - 59, Whistle for the Wind pg - 65, The Killing Field pg - 71, The Light Within pg - 77, The Trouble with Wood pg - 83, Mister Rue pg - 89, Coming Home pg - 95, Dollies pg - 103, Beautiful Meat pg - 109, Remembering What They Know pg - 115, The Hardest Season pg- 121, Dumb Head pg - 127, One Leaf pg - 113, I Pick Your Name pg - 141, Wolves Are Listening pg - 147, Traveling with My Eyes pg - 153, Permission pg - 159, The Song of Ice pg - 165, Fourteen Bucks pg - 171, The Quiet Voices pg - 179, This Place pg - 185.