Nick Jans

The Last Light Breaking (eBook, ePUB)

Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people--the Inupiat Natives, an ancient culture on the cusp of change. Making a poignant connection between the world he describes and the world of the Inupiat once knew, Nick Jans invokes with stunning power, the life of the Eskimos in the harsh arctic and the mystical aura of the wilderness of the far North. With the eye of an outdoorsman and the heart of a poet, Jans weaves together these 23 essays with strands of native American narrative, making vivid a place where wolves and grizzlies still roam free, hunters follow the caribou, and old women cast their nets in the dust as they have for countless generations. But looming on the horizon is the world of roads and modern technology; the future has already arrived in the form of stop signs, computers, and satellite dishes. Jans creates unforgettable images of a proud people facing an uncertain future, and of his own journey through this haunting timeless landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780882408651
• Artikelnr.: 39419455

Autorenporträt

Nick Jans is one of Alaska's most recognized and prolific writers. A contributing editor to Alaska Magazine and a member of USA Today's board of editorial contributors, he's written several books, including A Place Beyond, and hundreds of magazine articles, and contributed to many anthologies. His range includes poetry, short fiction, literary essays, natural history, outdoor adventure, fishing, and political commentary. He has been the recipient of numerous writing awards including a Rasmuson Foundation artist grant. He currently lives in Juneau with his wife, Sherrie, and travels widely in Alaska. He returns each year to Ambler, the arctic Inupiaq Eskimo village in which he lived for 20 years, and the place he still calls "home."

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - 9
Acknowledgements - 11
Map - 12
Getting There - 17
Ambler Trading - 21
Black River Autumn - 33
Two Worlds
One Spirit - 41
My Last Grizzly - 53
Arctic Heroes - 65
The River of Their Passing - 83
Beat the Qaaviks - 91
Running with the Wolves - 101
A Place Beyond - 109
What They Leave Behind - 115
Sheefish Time - 125
The Old Man's Winter - 131
A Trip to the Store - 141
Housekeeping in the Northwest Arctic - 147
The Circle of the Kill - 161
A Good Thing - 165
Fire at Us! - 173
Traveling Like Clarence - 177
Sharing the Weight - 189
An Amulet of the Spirit - 197
A Place Called Red Dog - 201
The Last Light Breaking - 209
Epigraph Sources - 215
Suggested Reading - 218