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  • North Pacific Temperate Rainforests

    inbunden, 2013, Engelska, ISBN 9780295992617

    The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth. This book provides a multidisciplinary

  • Menadelook

    inbunden, 2016, Engelska, ISBN 9780295999333

    Menadelook showcases nearly one hundred photographs taken by the Inupiat photographer Charles Menadelook that document life in Wales in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia,

  • Amchitka and the Bomb

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    inbunden, 2002, Engelska, ISBN 9780295982557

    More than a quarter-century has now passed since the United States set off the last of three underground atomic blasts in the remote wilderness of the Aleutian islands, off the

  • The Tlingit Indians

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    inbunden, 1991, Engelska, ISBN 9780295970080

    Lieutenant George Thornton Emmons, U.S.N., was station in Alaska during the 1880s and 1890s, a time when the Navy was largely responsible for law and stability in the Territory.

  • Memory Eternal

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    inbunden, 1999, Engelska, ISBN 9780295978062

    In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska

  • Proud Raven, Panting Wolf

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    inbunden, 2018, Engelska, ISBN 9780295743936

    Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is

  • Being and Place among the Tlingit

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    inbunden, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780295997179

    In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska's

  • The Tao of Raven

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    inbunden, 2016, Engelska, ISBN 9780295999593

    In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven

  • Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community

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    inbunden, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780295996011

    For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. Their history is a record