عنوان

A Republic of rivers :

شابک

0195061020 (alk. paper)

شابک

0195076052

شابک

9780195061024 (alk. paper)

شابک

9780195076059

شماره

b534530

عنوان اصلي

A Republic of rivers :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon /

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by John A. Murray.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1990.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xv, 325 p. [18] p. of plates :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

24 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-320) and index.

متن يادداشت

On building a raft / David J. Cooper -- Here I am yet! / Johnny Taku Jack -- Lake dwarves and giant rat / Anna Nelson Harry -- An expedition to the Pole / Annie Dillard -- The subsistence cycle / Richard Nelson -- Gather at the river / Edward Abbey -- Yukon-Charley : the shape of the wilderness / Barry Lopez -- Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska : a suite / John Morgan -- This tangled brilliance / David Rains Wallace -- Haida hunters and legend of the two fin killer whale / George Hamilton -- Two great polar bear hunters / Aloysius Pikonganna -- The Cormorant hunters / Frank Ellana -- Ragged ear of Sable Pass / John A. Murray.

متن يادداشت

The Gustavus Peninsula / John Burroughs -- The dominant primordial beast / Jack London -- Gold prospectors of the Susitna Valley / Robert Dunn -- Taku Inlet / Ella Higginson -- On the sheep ranges / Charles Sheldon -- The barren grounds grizzly bear / Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Koyukon riddles / Julius Jetté -- The ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) / Hudson Stuck -- The Kuskokwim River / May Wynne Lamb -- Eskimo poems / Knud Rasmussen -- The north fork of the Koyukuk / Robert Marshall -- The wolves of Mount McKinley / Adolph Murie -- Other days / John Haines -- The old crow / Margaret Murie -- Glacier Bay journal / Dave Bohn -- Sheenjek / Kenneth Brower -- One man's wilderness / Richard Proenneke -- The Alaskan journal / Thomas Merton.

متن يادداشت

The sea cow / Georg Wilhelm Steller -- The Bering Straits / James Cook -- Observations on Unalashka / Carl Heinrich Merck -- Prince William Sound / George Vancouver -- Arrival at the Arctic Coast / Alexander Mackenzie -- St. Lawrence Island / Otto Von Kotzebue -- The Bering Straits / Adelbert Von Chamisso -- The Pribilof Islands / Frederick Litke -- Notes on the Copper River / Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangell -- Notes on the islands of the Unalashka District / Ivan Venianimov -- Nulato : a settlement on the Yukon / L.A. Zagoskin -- Letter to Sir John Richardson / Alexander Hunter Murray -- The rapids of the Yukon / William Henry Dall -- The Pribilof Islands / Elizabeth Beaman -- The Alexander Archipelago / John Muir -- On crossing the Alaska Range / Henry T. Allen -- The Grand Canon of the Yukon / Frederick Schwatka.

بدون عنوان

2

بدون عنوان

2

بدون عنوان

2

متن يادداشت

This selection of Arctic-American literature covers both Alaska and the Yukon and includes writings by literary figures, missionaries, explorers, climbers, miners, scientists, backpackers, fishermen and native people, with a common theme of 'wild nature'. Selections date from 1741 to 1989.

عنوان

Republic of rivers.

موضوع مستند نشده

Natural history-- Alaska.

موضوع مستند نشده

Natural history-- Yukon.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Murray, John A.,1954-

تاريخ عمليات

20140210071120.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y