A Republic of rivers : three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Murray, John A., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Temas:
Natural history > Alaska.
Natural history > Yukon.
Sciences naturelles > Alaska.
Sciences naturelles > Yukon.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
Natural history
Alaska
Yukon
Yukon Territory
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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