Velma Wallis

Raising Ourselves

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Velma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark her coming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, where she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is defined by the business of survival: Haul water from the Yukon. Kill a moose. Chop firewood. Feed the sled dogs staked around the cabin. Run the trap line. Catch salmon. It is a time of innocence and laughter, too, as the children escape into a world of play under the midnight sun. The once-migratory family has settled at the confluence of two she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is defined by the business of survival: Haul water from the Yukon. Kill a moose. Chop firewood. Feed the sled dogs staked around the cabin. Run the trap line. Catch salmon. It is a time of innocence and laughter, too, as the children escape into a world of play under the midnight sun.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Epicenter Press Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780972494472
• ISBN-10: 0972494472
• Artikelnr.: 22283964

Autorenporträt

VELMA WALLIS and her husband, Jeffrey, who have lived offthe land intermittently for much of their lives by hunting, fishing,and trapping, divide their time between Fairbanks and FortYukon, Alaska. They have two children.