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Crosscurrents North In this collection of 61 essays and poems, long-time Alaskans express admiration and awe of the landscape and its wild inhabitants. Contributors span the state and include familiar names as well as new voices. All are passionate about their world--a world populated by icons such as whales, wolves, and bears, as well as a microcosm of mushrooms, sand lance, and berries, upon which all depend. Leading with a preface by Bill McKibben and a foreword by the late Alaska Governor Jay Hammond, this anthology celebrates the wildness and wonder of Alaska's land and seas, and raises questions about how we humans live here.
"Crosscurrents North is a beautiful, heart-breaking, and desperately important book. What the book says--in the measured tones of Native elders, in the wind-scoured words of Alaska's fine writers, in the blunt speech of trappers and fishers--is this: 'There are people who love this bountiful, bruised land. Help us defend it. For all time.'" ~Kathleen Dean Moore This book is a pleasure. It brings to life in page after page the breathtaking richness and power of life in Alaska. ~ Robert Hass The Heart of the Sound When the Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on Good Friday 1989, millions of gallons of crude oil swept into the Sound, poisoning everything in its path. On the fifteenth anniversary of the spill comes one woman’s reflections on the devastation and the larger implications of that catastrophe.Twining together the destruction of an ecosystem, the disintegration of her marriage, and her emerging identity as a new mother, Holleman explores the resiliency of nature - both wild and human - and the ways in which that resiliency is tested.
"This book has it all: an original, compelling story; lyrical, evocative prose; a clear-eyed and passionate storyteller." ~Annie Dillard
"A love song to one of earth's loveliest and most threatened places...an extraordinary book full of wonder and passion..." ~David W. Orr
"An environmental masterpiece." ~Dennis Lythgoe
2006 Great Book Selection by Minnesota Women's Press. www.womenspress.com Nominated for the 2004 Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award |
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