Purely Alaska
Published on 1. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-1-935347-10-1 (ISBN)
Description
PURELY ALASKA: Authentic Voices from the Far North includes 32 stories as far flung as Alaska itself, including that of a woman who discovers a surprising new world when she goes off to boarding school; a mother who hopes to steer his son to college, but he wants to be a commercial fisherman like his dad; a life-saving reindeer drive across Alaska; a young man's struggle against powerful addictions; a husband whose after-work snowmachine outing becomes a near-death experience; and an outsider who comes intending to help the village but finds that he is the one needing help.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-935347-10-1 (9781935347101)
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The editors are both on the faculty at Chukchi College in Kotzebue, Alaska, a unit of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. SUSAN B. ANDREWS is a professor of journalism and humanities after having been a TV producer for the Kotzebue-based Northwest Arctic Borough School District and news director at CBS affiliate in Fairbanks. JON CREED, also a professor of journalism and humanities at Chukchi College, is a former reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner who also worked as a schoolteacher in rural Alaska. In the 1980s, John and Susan, a husband-and-wife team, founded Chukchi News and Information Service, a cultural journalism project that features University of Alaska student writing in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and on websites. The anthology "Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers" was compiled from the Chukchi News and Information Service project, winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Alaska Press Club's Public Service Award.