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History of Art

Ted Lambert The Man Behind the Paintings

Lambert Ted

ISBN: PB: 9781602231658, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 colour illus.

Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a co...

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Gaining Daylight Life on Two Islands

Loewen Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781602231986, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2013
140 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 20 halftones

For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the...

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Finding Mars

Rozell Ned

ISBN: PB: 9781602231221, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2011
190 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 128 halftones

"Finding Mars" is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher – and inveterate wanderer – Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along t...

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When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...

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Land Beyond A Memoir

Ives Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602230774, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
186 pp., 23x15 cm, 52 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and work...

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Mammals

Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Troyer Will

ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...

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