Moonlight at midday
Title:
Moonlight at midday
JLCTITLE245:
Sally Carrighar.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Knopf, 1958.
Physical Description:
xix, 392 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
General Note:
"Alaska: its animals, ghosts, and people, Eskimos and white settlers, its wildlife and villages and cities, as few outsiders ever see it"--Jacket
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-392) and index.
Biographical/Historical Data:
Sally Carrighar received a Guggenheim fellowship, and took up the study of the Eskimos and wild animals of the Arctic. She stayed nine years, part of the time in Unalakleet, a primitive, isolated village, supporting herself through writing when her fellowship ran out. Carrighar wrote three books based on her years in the Arctic-- Icebound Summer, Moonlight at Midday, and Wild Voice of the North.
Contents:
Part I.A Fine, Complete People: Stormy Route to a Quiet Mind. Every Day Is Saturday. Outpost. In a Man's world-Men. The Proud Eskimo Igloo-Wife. Little Isaac Sing Too Much. Eskimo Love Song. Men of Magic. The Missing Spirit. Even Though Ukfakineritarpitsia. A Race Adrift. Bush Flight -- Part II. Modern Pioneering: A Choice of Challenges. Outwitting the Arctic. Supply Lines. Alaska Wages and Where They Go. The Bountiful Arctic Wilderness. -- Part III. Alaska Summons Its Own: One Man's Bonanza. The Mad Eskimo Woman of Diomede. Closing Night.