Books from University of Alaska Press

The History of the Central Brooks Range: Gaunt Beauty, Tenuous Life
By William Edward Brown
We pushed ahead, and my feelings can scarcely be imagined when, at eight o'clock, we rounded a high, rocky bluff and came suddenly in ... Shortly, they left the Kobuk's true headwater channel and tracked up Walker Lake's outlet stream.
The History of the Central Brooks Range: Gaunt Beauty, Tenuous Life
By William E. Brown
We pushed ahead, and my feelings can scarcely be imagined when, at eight o'clock, we rounded a high, rocky bluff and came suddenly in ... Shortly, they left the Kobuk's true headwater channel and tracked up Walker Lake's outlet stream.
Shem Pete's Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina
By James Kari, James A. Fall
... 159 , 161 McHugh Creek , ( 15.135 Q'isqa Betnu ) : 341 McHugh Peak , ( 15.103 Q'isqa Dghelaya ) : 341 , plate 26 McLaren River , ( 10.50 C'iidze ' Na ' ) : 222 , 227 , 231 Meadow Creek , ( 15.68 K'ulch'eytnu ) : 277 , 328 Mendeltna ...
North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems
By Amy Lauren Lovecraft, Hajo Eicken
... III, M. W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D. L. Verbyla (eds.). 2006. Alaska's changing borealforest. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapin, F. S., III, M. Sturm, M. C. Serreze, J. P. McFadden, J. R. Key, A. H. Lloyd, ...
Placing John Haines
By James Perrin Warren
As the letter continued, Haines waxed more and more vehement, criticizing the work of W. s. Merwin, Charles simic, and James ... SCOTT WALKER AS EDITOR AND AGENT scott Walker founded Graywolf Press at Port townsend, Washington, in 1974.
How to Lobby Alaska State Government
By Clive S. Thomas
Pragmatic and portable, this book will be valuable to new and professional lobbyists both, and anyone looking for fresh perspectives on this important business.
How to Lobby Alaska State Government
By Clive S. Thomas
Clive S. Thomas, ed., Alaska Politics and Public Policy: The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities and Power (University of Alaska Press, 2016). The most comprehensive book to date on Alaska politics.
Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/the Entire Surface of the Land Is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska
By Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, Marie Meade
Birch. trees. Elngut (birch trees, Betula papyrifera) have many uses. Their wood is fuel, their bark provides material for baskets and canoes, and straight-grained pieces can be split and made into bows. John Andrew (April 2019:214) ...
The Geography of Water
By Mary Emerick
I remembered James Tucker's grave, somewhere under my feet. Unlike James, my father would never have a grave. Instead, his bones would tumble along the bottom of the ocean. With time and enough storms, they could roll right out of the ...
Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil: The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan Through the Northwest Passage
By Ross Coen
... ocean route between Prudhoe Bay and New York remained blocked by ice year-round, a straight comparison between the two methods could be made. Stan Haas, by this time part of Humble's marine division at its Houston headquarters, ...
Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians
By Brian Garfield
Fathometers would not show a pinnacle rock until the hull was impaled on it. ... On June 26, 1942, Rear Admiral John W. Reeves replaced Captain Ralph C. Parker as commander of shore-based naval operations and patrol craft in the Alaskan ...
Coming Out of Nowhere: Alaska Homestead Poems
By Linda Schandelmeier
But hers is not a typical homestead story. In this book, part poetic memoir and part historical document, a young girl comes of age in a family fractured by divorce and abuse.
Alaska Natives and American Laws: Third Edition
By David S. Case, David A. Voluck
the General Allotment Act of 1887, which was designed to break up Indian reservations.25 One can only speculate that the remoteness of Alaska along with the missionary zeal of William Duncan and his supporters were responsible for its ...
Picture Man: The Legacy of Southeast Alaska Photographer Shoki Kayamori
By Margaret Thomas
An associate of Rutland and Yoshikawa, Kuehn was arrested soon after the attack. The Nazi admitted he had helped the Japanese consulate's Honolulu office develop a system of codes for signaling submarines about U.S. fleet movements.
Northern Exposures: An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images
By Jonathan Waterman
The essays and photographs collected in Northern Exposures are a product of this passion for exploration and offer an unparalleled view into adventuring in the north and beyond.
Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo
By Ann Chandonnet
Betz, Bob, editor. Tastes of Liberty: A Celebration of Our Great Ethnic Cooking. Woodinville, Washington: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc. for Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, 1985. Black, Martha Louise. My Ninety Years, rev. ed. Edited and.
The Fires of Patriotism: Alaskans in the Days of the First World War 1910-1920
By Preston Jones
Albert P. Niblack, “Naval Defenses of the United States,” unpublished manuscript, c. 1915; Alaska Railroad records, box 66, file 138.1; National Archives and Records Administration-Pacific-Alaska Region (NARA-PAR), Anchorage, Alaska.
Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity
By Susan W. Fair
(Above) This shee fish hook is characteristic of hooks from the Kobuk River area. Handmade fish hooks like these, incorporating a variety of colorful materials, have been used since ancient times. Drawing by Roy A. Barr, Sr., Noorvik, ...
Granite
By Susan Butcher, David Monson, Sarah Douglas
Shares the story of Granite, a dog raised by Susan Butcher to become the leader of her sled dog team, discussing his weakness as a puppy, the potential she nurtured in him, the injury and illness that nearly killed the dog, and his heroic ...
Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich
By Annie Boochever, Jr., Roy Peratrovich
In 1922 the Alaska Native attorney, William Paul Sr., defended a Tlingit Elder named Charlie Jones who had been arrested for voting illegally. Jones was also known as Chief Shakes VII and was a leader of the Stikine area in Southeast ...