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"In the course of a two-year odyssey ...Kizzia visited numerous native settlements, interviewed leaders and followers, and wrote the feature articles that make up this charming, informative book...Kizzia writes a clear, unobtrusive prose that crystallizes in memorable images."--Washington Post. "A boatful of native Alaskans slapping downriver through the chop on their way to the biggest softball game of the season. A hunter singing the old songs for hunting luck, as he snowmobiles onto the ice with his rifle. Such contrasts--Eskimo and outsider, ancient and modern--run through Tom Kizzia's chronicle of travels in the Alaska bush in search of 'ancestral landscapes.'"--Smithsonian. "Kizzia writes with a quiet compassion that brings the people and their hard land clearly into focus."--Boston Globe. "Kizzia ...is a thoughtful and lyrical writer who manages to be sensitive without veering into sentimentality...[He] joined Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians in steambaths and softball games. He visited their homes and their Russian Orthodox churches and their fishing camps. He even went on a ruthless whale hunt with two young Eskimos, a skiff and a .22-caliber rifle. A careful and sympathetic observer."--Philadelphia Inquirer. Tom Kizzia is a journalist at the Anchorage Daily News.
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Tom Kizzia is a journalist at the Anchorage Daily News.
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The Wake of the Unseen Object: Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes
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Bison Books, 1998
ISBN 10 : 0803277881
ISBN 13 : 9780803277885
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paperback. Etat : Very Good. Tight and clean Softcover. No marks. N° de réf. du vendeur 11082211
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Bison Books, 1998
ISBN 10 : 0803277881
ISBN 13 : 9780803277885
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Softcover. Etat : Very Good. About four page corners have been creased. Gift inscription by and signed by Tom Kizzia. (And with brief gift inscription by previous owner). Signed copies rarely offered. In the course of a two-year odyssey . . . Kizzia visited numerous native settlements, interviewed leaders and followers, and wrote the feature articles that make up this charming, informative book. . . . Kizzia writes a clear, unobtrusive prose that crystallizes in memorable images.- Washington Post A boatful of native Alaskans slapping downriver through the chop on their way to the biggest softball game of the season. A hunter singing the old songs for hunting luck, as he snowmobiles onto the ice with his rifle. Such contrasts-Eskimo and outsider, ancient and modern-run through Tom Kizzia's chronicle of travels in the Alaska bush in search of 'ancestral landscapes. Tom Kizzia traveled widely in rural Alaska during a 25-year career as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He was named 2022 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017. Signed by Author. N° de réf. du vendeur SKU2020022802
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The Wake of the Unseen Object. Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes
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University Of Nebraska Press, 1998
ISBN 10 : 0803277881
ISBN 13 : 9780803277885
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Etat : Good. In this personal narrative, Tom Kizzia tells of a journey through the outback of Alaska in search of North America's last aboriginal landscapes. In the wilderness of the outer coast, Kizzia finds an indigenous people whose traditions are as pressed by the twentieth century as is the primeval land they inhabit and learns how the complexities of modern times have given rise to a Native sovereignty movement, as tribal elders and a troubled younger generation struggle to reconcile their centuries-old traditions with a new age of Native capitalism and rock and roll. Through vivid portraits of characters and places along the way, the author describes his discovery of a magical mix of worlds--a team of Indian boys journeying downriver to a softball game--a spontaneous midnight whale hunt in the Bering Sea--and begins to see Alaska from a new perspective. Just as Eskimo hunters watch the water for the wake of their unseen quarry, Kizzia keeps his eye on the visibly changing life in the bush while managing to grasp the invisible spiritual strength of a people who embrace the heart of nature--and to portray in The Wake of the Unseen Object the efforts of those who are working to make that way of life endure.; 1st Bison printing 1998. paperback met schoon en heel mooi fris gebleven binnenwerk. Recht boekblok. Omslag: geen leeslijntjes in de rug; voorplat met scherpe randen; achterplat klein vouwtje linksboven. N° de réf. du vendeur 949169
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