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200 02$aA Republic of rivers $ethree centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon /$fedited by John A. Murray
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1990
215   $a1 online resource (362 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-507605-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-320) and index.
327   $a""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: 1741-1866: Russian America and the Age of Exploration""; ""1. The Sea Cow""; ""2. The Bering Straits""; ""3. Observations on Unalaska""; ""4. Prince William Sound""; ""5. Arrival at the Arctic Coast""; ""6. St. Lawrence Island""; ""7. The Bering Straits""; ""8. The Pribilof Islands""; ""9. Notes on the Copper River""; ""10. Notes on the Islands of the Unalaska District""; ""11. Nulato, a Settlement on the Yukon""; ""12. Letter to Sir John Richardson""; ""Part II: 1867-1958: Territorial Alaska and the Age of Exploitation""
327   $a""13. The Rapids of the Yukon""""14. The Pribilof Islands""; ""15. The Alexander Archipelago""; ""16. On Crossing the Alaska Range""; ""17. The Grand Canon of the Yukon""; ""18. The Gustavus Peninsula""; ""19. The Dominant Primordial Beast""; ""20. Gold Prospectors of the Susitna Valley""; ""21. Taku Inlet""; ""22. On the Sheep Ranges""; ""23. The Barren Grounds Grizzly Bear""; ""24. Koyukon Riddles""; ""25. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)""; ""26. The Kuskokwim River""; ""27. Eskimo Poems""; ""28. The North Fork of the Koyukuk""; ""29. The Wolves of Mount McKinley""
327   $a""Part III: 1959-1989: Alaskan Statehood and the Age of Environmentalism""""30. Other Days""; ""31. The Old Crow""; ""32. Glacier Bay Journal""; ""33. Sheenjek""; ""34. One Man's Wilderness""; ""35. The Alaskan Journal""; ""36. On Building a Raft""; ""37. Here I Am Yet!""; ""38. Lake Dwarves and Giant Rat""; ""39. An Expedition to the Pole""; ""40. The Subsistence Cycle""; ""41. Gather at the River""; ""42. Yukon-Charley: The Shape of Wilderness""; ""43. Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska: A Suite""; ""44. This Tangled Brilliance""; ""45. Haida Hunters and Legend of the Two Fin Killer Whale""
327   $a""46. Two Great Polar Bear Hunters""""47. The Cormorant Hunters""; ""48. Ragged Ear of Sable Pass""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""
330   $a""The spell of Alaska,"" Ella Higginson wrote in 1908, ""falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far northern snow-pearled shores...or who has drifted down the mighty rivers of the interior which flow, bell-toned and lonely, to the sea....No writer has ever described Alaska;no one writer ever will; but each must do his share, according to the spell that the country casts upon him.""        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
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