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The Wake of the Unseen Object: Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes
The Wake of the Unseen Object Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes Author:Tom Kizzia 'In the course of a two-year odyssey ...Kizzia visited numerous native settlements, interviewed leaders and followers, and wrote the feature articles that make up this charming, informative book...Kizzia writes a clear, unobtrusive prose that crystallizes in memorable images' - "Washington Post". 'A boatful of native Alaskans slapping downriver ... more »through the chop on their way to the biggest softball game of the season. A hunter singing the old songs for hunting luck, as he snowmobiles onto the ice with his rifle. Such contrasts - Eskimo and outsider, ancient and modern - run through Tom Kizzia's chronicle of travels in the Alaska bush in search of 'ancestral landscapes" - Smithsonian.'Kizzia writes with a quiet compassion that brings the people and their hard land clearly into focus' - "Boston Globe". 'Kizzia ...is a thoughtful and lyrical writer who manages to be sensitive without veering into sentimentality...[He] joined Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians in steambaths and softball games. He visited their homes and their Russian Orthodox churches and their fishing camps. He even went on a ruthless whale hunt with two young Eskimos, a skiff and a .22-caliber rifle. A careful and sympathetic observer' - "Philadelphia Inquirer". Tom Kizzia is a journalist at the "Anchorage Daily News".« less