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A Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic Alaska de Jans Nick

A Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic Alaska

Autor Jans Nick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2009
Nick Jans leads us into his “found” home --- the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure --- camping among the wolves, traveling with Inupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at spring breakup.  
 The poignancy of a village funeral comes to life, hordes of mosquitoes whine against a tent, a grizzly stands etched against the snow --- just a sampling of the images and events rendered in Jan’s transparent, visual prose.  Moments of humor ar offset by haunting insights, and by thoughtful reflections on contemporary Inupiaq culture, making A Place Beyond a book to read and enjoy.


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780882408071
ISBN-10: 0882408070
Pagini: 189
Ilustrații: 40
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:2nd ed.
Editura: ALASKA NORTHWEST BOOKS

Cuprins

Acknowledgments - pg 7, Map pg - 8, Preface pg - 11, Grandpa’s Ghost pg -15, Putyuq Always Get pg-21, Thin Water pg ߝ 27, Sometimes Always Never pg 33, Gearhead Heaven pg ߝ 39, One of Us pg ߝ 45, A State of Mind pg ߝ 51, The Only Game pg - 59, Whistle for the Wind pg ߝ 65, The Killing Field pg ߝ 71, The Light Within pg ߝ 77, The Trouble with Wood pg ߝ 83, Mister Rue pg ߝ 89, Coming Home pg ߝ 95, Dollies pg ߝ 103, Beautiful Meat pg ߝ 109, Remembering What They Know pg ߝ 115, The Hardest Season pg- 121, Dumb Head pg - 127, One Leaf pg ߝ 113, I Pick Your Name pg ߝ 141, Wolves Are Listening pg ߝ 147, Traveling with My Eyes pg ߝ 153, Permission pg ߝ 159, The Song of Ice pg ߝ 165, Fourteen Bucks pg ߝ 171, The Quiet Voices pg ߝ 179, This Place pg ߝ 185.

Recenzii

What has always impressed me about Jans’ writing is his modesty and ability to describe scenes aptly without exaggeration…Jans can write about wolves and caribou and ice mostly engagingly, but he is at his best telling of himself and his friends.    --- Bill Hunt, We Alaskans

Nick Jans has a lot going for him. I will mention only two. He lived in Northwestern Alaska and understands that part of the country and its people, and he can write. A single word description of his writing is ‘succinct.’    --- Robert DeArmond, Daily Sitka Sentinel

Jans grasps the awesomeness of the land and the smallness of man’s presence there, just as he intends to do. His language is as simple as moss while being as profound as the arctic horizon. Indeed, we are very lucky to have Nick Jans, an Alaskan writer who has learned to express awe and remembers the elders who taught him.   Nancy Brown, Peninsula Clarion

Notă biografică

Nick Jans is one of Alaska's most recognized and prolific writers. A contributing editor to Alaska Magazine and a member of USA Today's board of editorial contributors, he's written nine books and hundreds of magazine articles, and contributed to many anthologies. His range includes poetry, short fiction, literary essays, natural history, outdoor adventure, fishing, and political commentary. He has been the recipient of numerous writing awards including a Rasmuson Foundation artist grant. He currently lives in Juneau with his wife, Sherrie, and travels widely in Alaska. He returns each year to Ambler, the arctic Inupiaq Eskimo village in which he lived for 20 years, and the place he still calls "home."

Extras

"One bright morning a dozen years ago, Clarence Wood and I stood on the crest of a birch knoll, looking out over the upper Kobuk valley. Before us, thousands of caribou graved, dark specks trailing off into the blue-white distance. Clarence turned, his eathered Eskimo face split b a wide grin. 'Lots,' he said quietly. 'Lots.'  The longer I live here and write, the more I find myself following Clarence's cue --- turning to smpler words, and fewer of them.  My hope, in these twenty-eight brief essays about life in the Alaskan arctic, is to find words not big enough, but small enough for a landscape and a place without end."

                                                                                                                                From the Preface,  page 11

Descriere

Nick Jans leads us into his “found” home --- the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure --- camping among the wolves, traveling with Inupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at spring breakup.  
 The poignancy of a village funeral comes to life, hordes of mosquitoes whine against a tent, a grizzly stands etched against the snow --- just a sampling of the images and events rendered in Jan’s transparent, visual prose.  Moments of humor ar offset by haunting insights, and by thoughtful reflections on contemporary Inupiaq culture, making A Place Beyond a book to read and enjoy.