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BL
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712341
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b534530
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| Title & Author
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A Republic of rivers : : three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon /\ edited by John A. Murray.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1990.
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xv, 325 p. [18] p. of plates :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0195061020 (alk. paper)
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: 0195076052
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: 9780195061024 (alk. paper)
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: 9780195076059
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-320) and index.
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| Contents
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On building a raft / David J. Cooper -- Here I am yet! / Johnny Taku Jack -- Lake dwarves and giant rat / Anna Nelson Harry -- An expedition to the Pole / Annie Dillard -- The subsistence cycle / Richard Nelson -- Gather at the river / Edward Abbey -- Yukon-Charley : the shape of the wilderness / Barry Lopez -- Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska : a suite / John Morgan -- This tangled brilliance / David Rains Wallace -- Haida hunters and legend of the two fin killer whale / George Hamilton -- Two great polar bear hunters / Aloysius Pikonganna -- The Cormorant hunters / Frank Ellana -- Ragged ear of Sable Pass / John A. Murray.
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The Gustavus Peninsula / John Burroughs -- The dominant primordial beast / Jack London -- Gold prospectors of the Susitna Valley / Robert Dunn -- Taku Inlet / Ella Higginson -- On the sheep ranges / Charles Sheldon -- The barren grounds grizzly bear / Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Koyukon riddles / Julius Jetté -- The ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) / Hudson Stuck -- The Kuskokwim River / May Wynne Lamb -- Eskimo poems / Knud Rasmussen -- The north fork of the Koyukuk / Robert Marshall -- The wolves of Mount McKinley / Adolph Murie -- Other days / John Haines -- The old crow / Margaret Murie -- Glacier Bay journal / Dave Bohn -- Sheenjek / Kenneth Brower -- One man's wilderness / Richard Proenneke -- The Alaskan journal / Thomas Merton.
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The sea cow / Georg Wilhelm Steller -- The Bering Straits / James Cook -- Observations on Unalashka / Carl Heinrich Merck -- Prince William Sound / George Vancouver -- Arrival at the Arctic Coast / Alexander Mackenzie -- St. Lawrence Island / Otto Von Kotzebue -- The Bering Straits / Adelbert Von Chamisso -- The Pribilof Islands / Frederick Litke -- Notes on the Copper River / Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangell -- Notes on the islands of the Unalashka District / Ivan Venianimov -- Nulato : a settlement on the Yukon / L.A. Zagoskin -- Letter to Sir John Richardson / Alexander Hunter Murray -- The rapids of the Yukon / William Henry Dall -- The Pribilof Islands / Elizabeth Beaman -- The Alexander Archipelago / John Muir -- On crossing the Alaska Range / Henry T. Allen -- The Grand Canon of the Yukon / Frederick Schwatka.
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| Abstract
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This selection of Arctic-American literature covers both Alaska and the Yukon and includes writings by literary figures, missionaries, explorers, climbers, miners, scientists, backpackers, fishermen and native people, with a common theme of 'wild nature'. Selections date from 1741 to 1989.
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| Subject
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Natural history-- Alaska.
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Natural history-- Yukon.
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| LC Classification
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QH105.A4R46 1990
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| Added Entry
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Murray, John A.,1954-
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