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publisher of award-winning books on Alaska and the circumpolar north. Politics of Wilderness Preservation Front Street - Kotzebue Bear Wrangler
Our purpose is to publish and distribute nonfiction about Alaska, the
Pacific Rim, Arctic Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia. We publish on
topics that include:
* history and politics
* natural history
* anthropology, Native studies, and folklore
* Native languages and literatures
* geology, climate, and the aurora
* exploration
* northern health
We invite you to explore our site and learn more about the North through
our books.
Our Newest Books
Authors: Allin, Craig W.
Price: $14.95 / ISBN 978-1-60223-025-5 (paper)
Publication Date: September 2008
The story of preservation politics in America is one of the seminal stories of American history, charting our evolution as a people and a culture. Public policy is a measure of what we value as a society. Originally regarded as a powerful enemy, wilderness was the target of countless land laws
aimed at its destruction. Once it had been largely defeated, wilderness came to be seen as a vanishing and valuable resource and an essential contributor to the American character.
In the post-Kyoto climate with “earth in the balance” and environmental
policy apparently paralyzed, it seems appropriate
to celebrate an era when government policy makers were able—if only for a moment—to elbow aside vested economic interests and embrace the preservation of nature for its own
sake. Allin explores the far-reaching political and economic impact of these policies, as well as their status today and their uncertain future. Allin has updated this classic volume, originally published in 1982, with a new preface and epilogue. With its cutting-edge analysis, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation is a must-read for
environmentalists and policy makers alike.
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Authors: Witmer, Dennis
Price: $50.00 / ISBN 978-0-9771028-1-5 (cloth)
Publication Date: October 2008
Just north of the Arctic Circle sits Kotzebue, a town of the Inupiat people that has endured for over a century. In this compelling visual essay, Dennis Witmer captures scenes on its Front Street, the main thoroougfare whose buildings have evolved from the sod huts of Native cultures to wood and concrete edifices. From front yards with parked snowmachines to townspeople peacefully strolling down sidewalks, the striking black-and-white images in Front Street, Kotzebue offer a thought-provoking view of life in the Arctic and people's methods of coexisting with nature.
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Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist
Authors: Troyer, Will
Price: $26.95 / ISBN 978-1-60223-043-9 (cloth)
Publication Date: November 2008
Alaska was not yet a state when Will Troyer began his 30-year wildlife career in 1951 with the Department of the Interior. In 1955, he became manager of the brown bear refuge on Kodiak Island. It was here that he and his assistants pioneered the first primitive techniques for capturing brown bears to gather biological information. This involved trapping bears in foot snares, lassoing them, and forcing a bucket of ether over their heads to subdue them. Years later, after more modern equipment became available, he anesthetized the big bears in Katmai National Park by sneaking through the woods with a Cap-Chur Gun and shooting them at close range with a drug-filled dart.
Troyer worked in many remote areas of Alaska…from the Arctic Coast to the southeast rain forest and the stormy Aleutian Islands. He vividly describes his emotions and feelings while standing in the midst of 40,000 caribou or sitting on a remote sea island as masses of sea birds, glide, swoop, and circle around him emitting a din of raucous calls. His descriptive walk through a delta marsh filled with thousands of nesting and calling shorebirds, ducks, and geese reveals his love and wonder of nature.
Traveling through much of Alaska was often hazardous due to violent winds, stormy seas, fog, and sudden blizzards. He survived two airplane crashes and a near drowning with colleagues when their rafts were swept over a roaring waterfall.
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