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No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City

No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael EngelhardPublish date:2025-09-01Pages:306
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Corax BooksISBN-13:9798989920228UPC:9798989920228Book Category:History, Social Science, NatureSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.66Product ID:SCMT91BD6Q

Beyond Sled Dogs and Gold

Somewhere between myths and hard facts you find Nome, poised also between yesterday and tomorrow. Drawing on his background in anthropology and an equal passion for history, Michael Engelhard surveys the seam that links two neighboring continents through the lens of one pivotal city. The region's legacy of millennia shines on pages enriched by this writer's recollections-from mammoths to Cold War monuments, from a spa turned orphanage to cyclist miners and shaman hoards. Meet the explorers and adventurers, reindeer herders and hustlers, the dancers, drummers, dreamers, warriors, walrus-tusk carvers, and whalers, clergy, foragers, and photographers who shaped a place of conflicting visions as thoroughly as it shaped them.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Corax BooksISBN-13:9798989920228UPC:9798989920228Book Category:History, Social Science, NatureSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.66Product ID:SCMT91BD6Q
Engelhard, Michael: - Trained as an anthropologist with a degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Michael Engelhard worked for twenty-five years as a wilderness guide and outdoor instructor in Alaska and on the Colorado Plateau. The editor of four anthologies and author of "Ice Bear," a cultural history of the polar bear, he has won three Alaska Press Club Awards, and a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. Recent books include the National Outdoor Book Award-winning memoir "Arctic Traverse" as well as "What the River Knows: Essays from the Heart of Alaska," and the Grand Canyon essay collection "No Walk in the Park." His writing has also appeared in publications like Outside, Sierra, Backpacker, National Parks, Audubon, Utne Reader, and Times Literary Supplement, with more than a hundred articles in Alaska magazine.
Publisher: Corax Books

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