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Item Restricted Finding true north: firsthand stories of the booms that built modern Alaska(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Rettig, Molly, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherMolly Rettig leads readers through pivotal moments in modern Alaska's history that have not only built the Alaska we see today, but also created moments of great contention such as gold and oil. She ties the stories of people who lived during these times to her own story of discovery and change. The book starts with her arrival to Alaska, naive and unaware, where readers will learn and evolve with her as she comes to new realizations.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Leavetakings(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Cook, Corinna, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherLeavetakings is a collection of personal essays that convey the writer's intimate connections with Alaska. The sections in Leavetakings are structured around water: Inland, Intertidal, Upriver, At Sea. Several essays grapple with loving stolen land, and loving wild landscapes in the face of development, degradation, and resource extraction.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Our perfect wild: Ray and Barbara Bane's journeys and the fate of the Far North(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Johnson-Sullivan, Kaylene, author; Bane, Ray, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherItem Restricted The wake of the unseen object(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Kizzia, Tom, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherWhen The Wake of the Unseen Object was published in 1991, I imagined it might reach readers as a work of "literary travel," a genre then filling the shelves at the front of bookstores. The understated arc of the book, after all, was the education of a traveler: his progress, from early awkward door-to-door questioning to a deeper understanding and sense of place. His lessons in paying attention and seeing the world as it is, unburdened by romanticism or its inverse, disillusion. His struggles to free himself from that peculiar little character who shows up briefly in Chapter Two, "the God of Things as They Ought to Be." This new edition of the book reproduces the text as it originally appeared, without corrections or updates. Terms such as "Eskimo" and "Indian," now subject to reconsideration but common and accepted in that day, remain in place, along with then-standard applications of the words "Inupiat" and "Inupiaq," as noun and adjective.--Provided by publisher.