The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos - Hardcover

Jans, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882404458 ISBN 13: 9780882404455

Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books, 1993

Synopsis

In breathtaking prose, Alaskan writer and teacher Nick Jans offers an insider's perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people, the Inupiat Eskimos.

About this title

From the Publisher:

With the eye of an outdoorsman and the heart of a poet, Jans weaves together the twenty-three essays of THE LAST LIGHT BREAKING with strands of Inupiat Eskimo narrative, making vivid the remote and wild arctic. Jans creates unforgettable images of a proud people facing an uncertain future, and of his own journey through this haunting, timeless landscape.

Hailed as one of the best new books about Alaska when it was first released in 1993, THE LAST LIGHT BREAKING is now one of the classics of Alaska literature.

About the Author:

Nick Jans' first two books, The Last Light Breaking and A Place Beyond, have received critical and popular acclaim. He has lived in and taught school in the Alaskan bush for almost 20 years. He and his wife reside in Juneau and Ambler, Alaska.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0882404458
• ISBN 13: 9780882404455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 219