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"In the course of a two-year odyssey . . . Kizzia visited numerous native settlements, interviewed leaders and followers, and wrote the feature articles that make up this charming, informative book. . . . Kizzia writes a clear, unobtrusive prose that crystallizes in memorable images."-Washington Post "A boatful of native Alaskans slapping downriver through the chop on their way to the biggest softball game of the season. A hunter singing the old songs for hunting luck, as he snowmobiles onto the ice with his rifle. Such contrasts-Eskimo and outsider, ancient and modern-run through Tom Kizzia's chronicle of travels in the Alaska bush in search of 'ancestral landscapes.'"-Smithsonian Tom Kizzia is a journalist at the Anchorage Daily News.
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Tom Kizzia is a journalist at the Anchorage Daily News.
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- PublisherBison Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0803277881
- ISBN 13 9780803277885
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages278
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