Author: Ann Chandonnet
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Keywords: stew, hoochinoo, turpentine, grub, rush, gold
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1889963712
ISBN-13: 9781889963716

Gold Rush Grub weaves a tale of what the food was really like for intrepid dreamers like Wyatt Earp and Jack London in the gold fields of California, the Klondike, and Alaska. Chandonnet tells us how to roast a bear and stew a porcupine and gives us tempting recipes like corn meal-dusted trout with potato, apple, and onion hash that you¹ll want to cook tonight. ‹Amelia Saltsman, California food writer and television host "A unique look at Œthe last great adventure.¹" ‹Bruce Merrell, Anchorage Municipal Libraries Ann Chandonnet brings us a rollicking history of gold rush f

Authors:Dawn Lea Black, Alexander Petrov,
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Keywords: alaska, rasmuson, library, historic, translation, press, commerce, shelikhova, russian, oligarch, natalia, university
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2010-05-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602230730
ISBN-13: 9781602230736

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American Company, Shelikov worked in Alaska, and her business acumen and wide-ranging connections—including the empress of Russia and a swathe of northern leaders—were crucial to the growth of Alaska’s economy, as well as to the welfare of the Native people, in whose life and culture she took a strong interest. The letters, petitions, and personal d

Author: Neil Davis
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Keywords: history, natural, handbook, watcher, aurora
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1992-03-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0912006609
ISBN-13: 9780912006604

Authors:Susan W. Fair, Jean Blodgett,
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Keywords: innovation, continuity, tradition, art, native, alaska
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-07-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1889963798
ISBN-13: 9781889963792

The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabaskan, Yup’ik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs of a

Author: Lydia Black
Publisher: University of Alaska Pre
Keywords: alaska, russians
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1889963046
ISBN-13: 9781889963044

This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black?s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period,

Author: Victoria Moessner
Publisher: University of Alaska Pre
Keywords: ludwig, von, lowenstern, hermann, journal, russian, voyage, world, first
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1889963453
ISBN-13: 9781889963457

In May of 1803 the first Russian expedition around the world set sail from Kronstadt. It sailed by way of Denmark, England, Tenerife, Brazil, Nukahiva, Kamchatka, Japan, China, St. Helena, and Scotland before making its way home. On this two-hundred-year anniversary of the expedition, Victoria Joan Moessner brings us the first English translation of the uncensored, personal diary kept by Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern (1771?1836), the fourth officer on the lead ship Nadezhda under Captain Adam Johann von Krusenstern. Significantly, because Löwenstern never published his diary, it was not subm

Author: Les Viereck
Publisher: University of Alaska Pre
Keywords: shrubs, trees, alaska
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889963860
ISBN-13: 9781889963860