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A Republic of rivers : three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon /
""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 wri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2006]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | ""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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429415224 1429415223 |