A Republic of rivers : three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon

ISBN: 9780195061024 (alk. paper) :
ISBN: 0195061020 (alk. paper) :
Physical Description: print xv, 325 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 1990.

Summary: An anthology of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon, from 1741 to the present.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-320) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The sea cow / Georg Wilhelm Steller -- The Bering Straits / James Cook -- Observations on Unalashka / Carl Heinrich Merck -- Prince William Sound / George Vancouver -- Arrival at the Arctic Coast / Alexander Mackenzie -- St. Lawrence Island / Otto Von Kotzebue -- The Bering Straits / Adelbert Von Chamisso -- The Pribilof Islands / Frederick Litke -- Notes on the Copper River / Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangell -- Notes on the islands of the Unalashka District / Ivan Venianimov -- Nulato : a settlement on the Yukon / L.A. Zagoskin -- Letter to Sir John Richardson / Alexander Hunter Murray -- The rapids of the Yukon / William Henry Dall -- The Pribilof Islands / Elizabeth Beaman -- The Alexander Archipelago / John Muir -- On crossing the Alaska Range / Henry T. Allen -- The Grand Canon of the Yukon / Frederick Schwatka.
Citation/References Note:	Booklist
Target Audience Note:	Young Adult
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	Donation ; William C. Wonders ; 2008/01.