Soundings / Carolyn Servid -- Beyond whales / John Hildebrand -- Entering the ice age / John Dos Passos -- Welcome speech / Jennie Thlunaut -- From Narrative of the expedition / John Burroughs -- No road / John Keeble -- From K'tl'egh'i Sukdu : a Dena'ina legacy / Peter Kalifornsky -- From Notes on the islands of the Unalashka District / Ivan Veniaminov -- From Libby : the Alaskan diaries of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 / Libby Beaman -- We are all paddling a kayak through open tundra, not a river / Carolyn Kremers -- From A place for winter / Paul Tiulana -- Villages of the dead / John Muir -- Outwitting the Arctic / Sally Carrighar -- The embrace of names / Richard Nelson -- From Arctic wild / Lois Crisler -- From Shandaa : in my lifetime / Belle Herbert -- Up the black to Chalkyitsik / Edward Hoagland -- Leaving Alaska / John Haines -- From I married Wyatt Earp / Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp -- The wake of the unseen object : Black River / Tom Kizzia.