Seven Words for Wind: Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands

MacLeish, Sumner

ISBN 10: 0945397356 / ISBN 13: 9780945397359

Published by Epicenter Press, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska, 1997

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Number line in the work reads as follows: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Above this line is stated "First Printing, October, 1997". Volume itself has blue covers with sharp silver lettering on the spine and front cover. Outer page edges are deckled. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. A very nice, new, copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seven Words for Wind: Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands
• Publisher: Epicenter Press, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0945397356
• ISBN 13: 9780945397359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, !st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Far off the coast of mainland Alaska lie the remote Pribilof Islands, surrounded by a wild, rich sea. The largest island, St. Paul, is just fourteen miles long and eight wide. For over a decade, Sumner MacLeish worked, lived on, and came to love this place, its fierce weather, its abundant wildlife, and its people - about 600 Aleuts. Her spare, imagistic prose illuminates the unforgiving darkness and the unimaginable beauty of this subarctic landscape. The pieces in Seven Words for Wind are deeply subjective, describing immense storms that sweep across the seathe frenzy of a trapped herd of reindeeror the Aleuts' traditional subsistence seal harvest. MacLeish's writing is grounded in her own experiences and in her attentive, open curiousity, finding light, humore, and companionship where it might least be expected.

About the Author

Sumner MacLeish's love affair with Alaska's Pribilof Islands began in 1984 when she traveled there to produce a public-radio documentary about the commercial sealing industry. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.