Growing Up In Alaska

Author : Constance Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888215755
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in Alaska written by Constance Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby Arctic Tern hatches in Alaska. He has much to learn: how to eat, how to swim, how to bathe. But his greatest wish ... is to FLY! A story of learning, growing and spreading your wings.

Author : Tara Neilson
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513262874
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raised in Ruins written by Tara Neilson and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on LitHub. An extraordinary memoir of a woman’s unconventional childhood growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, on the grounds where the burned remains of a cannery once stood. In the 1980s the Neilson family moved out on a floathouse to the remote site of a former cannery in Southeast Alaska that had burned to the ground before statehood. They were miles away from any neighbors, surrounded on all sides by wolves, bears and other wildlife, entering the world of subsistence living in an uninviting land of dangerous weather and storms; yet the Neilsons were able to make themselves a home where few others would have found possible. Led by a jack-of-all-trades handyman for a father and a mother who was afraid of everything in the wilderness, Tara and her four siblings cleared the rough terrain to build atop the blackened, rusty ruins a new way of life that was completely their own. From a young age, Tara learned that anything was possible, so long as one can imagine it and then make it happen. When given her mother’s impractical design of a six-bedroom house, her father picked up his tools and crafted it into a reality. To reach the closest community, they built a wooden boat sixteen feet long for the perilous journey on the water. The Alaska wilds required independence and self-sufficiency from the family, and in return it provided a natural landscape that inspired romantic passion and unlimited dreams. With endless forest on one side and the wide ocean on the other, Tara embraced the lonesomeness of the burned cannery ruins that she called home, and often wondered what it once was with its people inside, their stories, where they went, and what happened to them. Beautifully poignant and completely original, Raised in Ruins escapes into the wilderness to discover a piece of Alaskan history wrapped in an incredible family adventure fueled by love, strength, hard work, endurance, and boundless imagination.

Author : A. J. McClanahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578331147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Native in Alaska written by A. J. McClanahan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With extraordinary honesty and openness, twenty-seven Alaska Natives talk about their lives and their futures. Their experiences reflect the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act passed thirty years ago.

Author : Kim Rich
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 088240976X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny's Girl written by Kim Rich and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny’s Girl the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaska’s underworld as the only child of gambler John F. “Johnny” Rich and exotic dancer, Frances “Ginger” Rich. It chronicles Alaska’s mean streets and her parent’s tragic lives that were cut short. Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of gamblers, pimps, and con men. She longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother, who suffered from mental illness, was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money. Only after her father was gruesomely murdered when she was 15, and Kim became a journalist, was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives.

Author : Eartha Lee
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457507641
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleeing the Country written by Eartha Lee and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Rearden
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882409301
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Koyukuk written by Jim Rearden and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.

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ISBN 13 : 9780692773642
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homestead Girl written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374154844
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Miles from Tomorrow written by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the author's traditional childhood north of the Arctic Circle, his education in the continental U.S., and his lobbying efforts that convinced the government to allocate resources to Alaska's natives in compensation for incursions on their way of life.

Author : Niki Breeser Tschirgi
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781457537721
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Alaska: Memories of a Town, a Time, a Place, and a People Planted in a Little Pocket of Wonderful written by Niki Breeser Tschirgi and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a glimpse back to a unique time, place, and people in the interior of Alaska where "normal" was attending school at -60 F and so was carrying a flashlight to the bus stop both in the morning and afternoon. Join Niki as she reminisces about her childhood in Tok (pronounced "Toke"). There was no internet or cell phones; TV and radio consisted of only one station, but none of that mattered. What did matter was the people, the experiences, and the memories they created together. Discover Bucky the Moose, Mukluk Land, colorful school memories, and the ups and downs of life in an isolated land. Laugh, and maybe cry a little, as you read about the community of Tok, and the people that made it special. Here's to remembering childhood....Here's to Growing up Alaska."

Author : Emma Teal Laukitis
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1632172267
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska written by Emma Teal Laukitis and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Alaska’s answer to the Pioneer Woman: Two sisters share their remarkable life story as fisherwomen of the Aleutian Islands—plus 50 sustainable seafood recipes that honor the beauty of wild foods. Share in the remarkable and wild lives of Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton, the Salmon Sisters, who grew up on a homestead in the Aleutians where the family ran a commercial fishing boat in the Alaskan sea. Their book reveals through stories, recipes, and photography this outward-bound lifestyle of natural bounty, the honest work on a boat's deck, and the wholesome food that comes from local waters and land. Here are creative and simple ways to enjoy wild salmon, halibut, and spot prawns, as well as simple crafts and ideas for exploring the natural world. The sisters are committed to sustaining and celebrating the seafaring community in Alaska, and their business of selling products related to and from the ocean donates a can of wild-caught fish to local food banks for each item purchased. “To flip through the pages of Emma Teal Laukities’s and Claire Neaton’s new cookbook . . . is to be whisked away on an adventure in the country’s northernmost state.” —Martha Stewart