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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Riding Through the Heart of Patagonia by Nancy Pfeiffer

April 26, 2018 / By 49 Writers

Three abreast, rows of well-groomed horses extended over hills and around bends farther than I could see. Riders carried banners from their home regions: Rio Nef, Rio Del Salto, Puerto Bertrand, Villa Castillo. We moved not as band of trail-weary, beaten-down campesinos with hundreds of kilometers behind us. Instead, we marched with flags flying as […]

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | The Great Unconformity by Kate Troll

January 4, 2018 / By 49 Writers

I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska. I arrived in Alaska thirty-nine years ago with a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From my

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Court of Twilight by Mareth Griffith

December 8, 2017 / By 49 Writers

The cold was back with a vengeance; she almost expected to see her breath hanging in the air like a frosted cloud. Very carefully, Ivy looked around the room, peering into the corners and shadows. She only saw her various twinned shadows twitching as she turned her head, tiny whirlpools of dust spinning at her

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Upon this Rock by David Marusek

July 29, 2017 / By 49 Writers

IT WOULD BE hard to return to sleep this late in the day, but Poppy yawned and turned over to try anyway. No dice. First the front door slammed, and someone stomped their boots on the mat. Then there was a lot of urgent-sounding jibber-jabber through the wall. Then the door slammed again. More boot

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Life with Forty Dogs, by Joseph Robertia

June 20, 2017 / By 49 Writers

My daughter seemed to see everything in her world through a lens of dog culture, much of it learned from her daily and personal interactions with Metoo. Cole’s hair flows to past her knees, and when she French braided it, Lynx would say “Mommy has her tail on.” When I used the chainsaw, she would

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Mud Flats and Fish Camps by Erin McKittrick

April 4, 2017 / By 49 Writers

I’d spent years watching the sun set on a skyline of volcanoes, orange light streaking across Cook Inlet and into the windows of my home, twenty-six miles up the coast in the village of Seldovia. So why not walk there? Why not walk even farther? Why not begin at the tip of the Kenai Peninsula

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Homestead Girl: The View From Here by Chantelle Pence

March 16, 2017 / By 49 Writers

I stood with my family on the land that they homesteaded. Our land. I was about fourteen and I felt proud as my dad began to talk about the property and how he had developed it. My feelings and views began to broaden over the next few minutes, years, and decades, as I began to

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | Ice Bear by Michael Engelhard

November 1, 2016 / By 49 Writers

Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon, by Michael Engelhard I, who normally shun crowds, had shown up at a Fairbanks political rally with a crude homemade sign: Polar Bears want babies, too. Stop our addiction to oil! I was protesting recurring attempts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the area with

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Spotlight on Alaska Books | American Wild by Michael Engelhard

September 29, 2016 / By 49 Writers

I already am wearing her mark, a paw-print tattooed on my thigh. Down in Tucson, twenty-some years ago, cooped up in a ranch job, I tried to invoke wildness with this ink stencil-totem. I’ve had a bearish streak since childhood—bearish moods and manners combined with a blockhead—that only worsens as I age. If you’ve seen

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