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Our Alaska: Personal Stories about Living in the North
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Product Description
Many influential visitors have written about Alaska, among them John Muir, John McPhee, and James Michener. In OUR ALASKA, award-winning writer and editor Mike Doogan forges an eclectic collection of stories both refreshingly simple and thoughtfully profound from a variety of Alaskan writers. These are real stories: among them sharing tales of boyhood trips to Lake Minchumina; growing up aboard a fishing trawler; being a ""tourist herder"" near Nome; understanding the rich, powerful meaning of the Koyukon Indian ""Hutlani"" code; recounting a black man's fateful decision to pass up a lucrative job in Washington, D.C. in favor of what Alaska offered his family; and understanding the importance of berry-picking to a city dweller.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #747591 in Books
- Published on: 2001-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
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About the Author
Mike Doogan, a lifelong Alaskan, is a writer, teacher, political activist, and former journalist who shared in a Pulitzer Prize won by the Anchorage Daily News.
