UA PRESS RELEASES TWO BOOKS FROM TRANSLATION SERIES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 1996

Fairbanks, Alaska - The University of Alaska Press has released two new works from the Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series: "Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts at the End of the Eighteenth and First Half of the Nineteenth Century" by R. G. Liapunova and "Fedor Petrovich Litke" by A. I. Alekseev.

"Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts," translated from the 1975 Russian edition, is Roza G. Liapunova's monograph on the Alaska's Aleuts. It discusses Aleut origins as hypothesized by archaeologists, Aleut life as documented in early historical sources, and Aleut material culture as documented both in historical sources and in the ethnological collections found in various museums. It is considered a valuable synthesis of English and Russian sources on these topics.

Alekseev's book highlights the life of Fedor Petrovich Litke - a Russian scientist, navigator, statesman and scholar who made significant contributions to world of science. He was a researcher, writer and adventurer, known for his contributions to Russian geographical science and to marine hydrography. Litke combined science with scholarship as a tutor for the son of Tsar Nicholas I. Litke was the first president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and organized the Russian Geographical Society.

Both titles retail for $18. For more information contact the University of Alaska Press, 1st Floor Gruening Building on the UAF campus.

CONTACT: Debbie Van Stone, University of Alaska Press, (907) 474- 6389

JCS/11-12-96/97-029