Search Results for Tom Kizzia

The wake of the unseen object : travels through Alaska's native landscapes

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Kizzia, Tom.
1998.
Book

The wake of the unseen object : among the native cultures of bush Alaska

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Kizzia, Tom.
1992, ©1991.
1st Owl book ed.
Book

The wake of the unseen object : among the native cultures of bush Alaska

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Kizzia, Tom.
©1991.
1st ed.
This collection of accounts of bush life in Alaska, in particular of northwest Alaska and the northern coast, focusses on rural development and native ways of life, and includes discussion of English Bay, Cape Prince of Wales, Teller, Golovin, Tetlin, Bristol Bay, Sleetmute, Lower Kalskag, Tuluksak, Akiachak and Black River.
Book

Cold Mountain path : the ghost town decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska 1938-1983

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Kizzia, Tom.
©2021.
1st ed.
"In this history of life in an isolated ghost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds a deeply American saga of renunciation and renewal. The spirit of Alaska in the old days -- impetuous, free-wheeling, and bounty-blessed -- lived on in the never-quite-abandoned mining town of McCarthy. While the new state boomed in the pipeline era, cagey old-timers and young back-to-the-landers forged a rough wilderness community that lived by its own rules. As the T'ang Dynasty mountain poet Han Shan wrote, "If your heart was like mine, you'd get it and be right here." The Wrangell Mountains developed a reputation as a hermit kingdom, "contrary and self-reliant, where settlers tougher than the rest of us salvaged, in post-apocalyptic fashion, the rusted relics of a profligate past." But history had its eyes on McCarthy. Pressures grew to improve access for tourists and speculators, and to cordon off the wild surroundings in a national park. Here is the story, hopeful but haunted, of those latter-day pioneers -- from the afternoon the last copper train left the valley, to the icy morning when a man with a rifle brought the lost decades to an end. Cold Mountain Path is loaded up with vivid accounts of heroes and lovers, crackpots and con artists, feuding prospectors and daring bush pilots. An outlaw who became Alaska's iconic art-museum sourdough. A secret government plan to explode an atomic bomb. A young Harvard graduate who followed the path of ascetic Chinese poetry into marriage with a mountain man. A loner who decided Nature would be better off with all of them gone. And tying the half-century together, the life story of a cantankerous and idealistic homesteader, Jim Edwards, who lived in the valley longer than any of them, "the ghost in Alaska's rear-view mirror." Beyond the whimsical reminiscing of old-timers, the book is also a serious environmental history: a meditation on ghost towns, a funhouse-mirror reflection of modern Alaska, and an on-the-ground recounting of the conservation battle to create the country's largest national park."--Publisher website.
Book

Pilgrim's wilderness : a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska Frontier

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Kizzia, Tom.
©2013.
1st ed.
Documents the story of Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale and the antiestablishment family settlement in remote Alaska that was exposed as a cult-like prison where Hale brutalized and isolated his wife and fifteen children.
Book

One totem, many stories : Lincoln pole symbolizes the clash of visions, emotions at the heart of Indian country

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Kizzia, Tom.
[1997]
Electronic resource

Pilgrim's wilderness [sound recording] : a true story of innocence and madness on the Alaska frontier

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Kizzia, Tom.
p2013.
Unabridged.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

Indian country, two destinies, one land

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Kizzia, Tom.
1997.
Book

Pilgrim's wilderness [sound recording] : [a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska frontier]

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Kizzia, Tom.
p2013.
Unabridged.
In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

The Wake of the Unseen Object

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Kizzia, Tom.
1991.
Book

The Wake of the Unseen Object [electronic resource] : Travels Through Alaska's Native Landscapes.

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Kizzia, Tom.
2020.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource] :

Longtime student of Alaska's Native history dies at age 98 : old-school anthropologist produced groundbreaking work on indigenous peoples.

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Kizzia, Tom.
2004.
Book

Wake of the unseen object

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Kizzia, Tom,
2020.
New edition.
"When 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"--
Book

The wake of the unseen object

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The Great land : reflections on Alaska

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c1994.
Book

The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change

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[2020]
First edition.
"A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change-including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more"--
Book

The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change

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[2020]
Unabridged.
This collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change includes writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more.
CD

150 years : proceedings of the 2017 Kenai Peninsula history conference

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JLC Corporate Author Kenai Peninsula history conference (2017 : Soldotna, Alaska),
[2018]
"In 2017, Alaska commemorated the sesquicentennial of its purchase by the United States from Russia. On April 21-22, 2017, more than 100 people gathered at Kenai Peninsula College's Kenai River Campus to discuss that event, its enduring and complex legacies, area cultures, and the dramatic history of th the Kenai Peninsula during the 1800s. This book compiles and expands upon the conference's content."--Page 4 of cover.
Regular print

The spill : personal stories from the Exxon Valdez disaster

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2009.
1st ed.
Book