A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

0195076052 / 9780195076059

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The Book is in Very Good+ condition. 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 are major figures--John Muir, Jack London, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, and Edward Abbey--but we also discover the voices of missionaries, explorers, mountain-climbers, Native Americans, miners, scientists, backpackers, and fishermen, each trying to capture something of the beauty of this still pristine land, to render in their own words the spell that the country casts upon them. The range of viewpoints is remarkable. With Annie Dillard we look out at ice floes near the remote Barter Island and see "what newborn babies must see: nothing but senseless variations of light on the retinas." With Frederick Litke we mourn the senseless slaughter of sea mammals. We join scientist Adolph Murie, the father of wolf ecology, as he probes the daily life of an East Fork wolf pack. And we listen as Tlingit Indian Johnny Jack relates the difficulty of maintaining a dignified life close to nature at a time of cultural upheaval for his people. Most of these selections have never appeared in any anthology and some entries--particularly those written by early American and Russian explorers--have never been available to general readers.There is laughter here and there is sorrow, but finally there is communion and liberation as generation after generation encounter the unsurpassed beauty and wildness of the Arctic. Taken together, these forty-nine men and women provide a unique portrait of America's final frontier.…

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Titolo
A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon
Autore
Murray, John A (Editor)
Editore
Oxford University Press, USA
Anno di pubblicazione
1992
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Trade paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0195076052
ISBN 13
9780195076059
Peso dell'articolo
20 once
Dimensioni
88x17x144
Cataloghi dei venditori
Natural History

Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

New Castle, CO, U.S.A.

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