Trickster: Myths from the Ahtna Indians of Alaska, Paperback - John Smelcer

This is a collection of stories from the Ahtna Indians of Alaska, collected and retold by tribe member John Smelcer. Numerous illustrations by Larr...

Reducere. This is a collection of Alaska Native folklore and mythology. All the various regions and tribal groups are represented in this collection. The col...

As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her hom...

Reducere. In personal stories, evocative photographs, and recipes that are purposefully simple and designed for the home cook, Chef Kirsten Dixon and her fam...

Reducere. "Plants That We Eat" is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story behind the best-selling book One Man's Wilderness and how author Sam Keith and Dick Proenneke met and forged an everlasting fr...

Reducere. Alaska Trees and Shrubs describes and illustrates over 150 woody plants - the trees and shrubs - found in the 49th State. Included are essentially ...

Reducere. "We are dealing here with a living literature, " wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. Firs...

Dreaming Bears is the true story of the rare friendship that develops between a young medical student with deep roots in the South and an elderly I...

Reducere. All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Nor...

Reducere. The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremoni...

DescriptionWith nearly 50 species of berries that grow wild in Alaska, this collection takes the more abundant and popular species and shares 200 t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dennis Waller"The Tlingit and the Haida don't have myths; they are stories about our history" The Raven is as much a parado...

Reducere. Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, very little has been writte...

Reducere. Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 194...

John Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wildernes...

Reducere. NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The F...

A new edition of John Green's }Looking For Alaska{ set to mark its adaptation to HULU Limited TV series. Miles's uneventful life takes a strange tu...

Reducere. Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume I: The Impact of American Indians on Western Politics a...

Reducere. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him ...

Reducere. Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region's original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the...

Reducere. From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding...

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people,...

An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the Caucasus Th...

Reducere. DescriptionContrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. ...

Reducere. Since 1935, Alaska magazine has charted the development of our biggest, most mysterious state. With compelling stories on such events as earthquake...

[An] illuminating memoir. --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York TimesThe story of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditatio...

Living Within the Wild features over 100 original recipes, accompanied by personal stories and stunning photographs, to illustrate the lives of one...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionUnlike previous works that focus on the relationships of the Chippewa with the colonial governments of France, Great Britain, and the Un...

Reducere. DescriptionRather than focusing on a single Choctaw group, this book offers for the first time a combined story of "the Choctaw" as the tribe compr...

Reducere. Across the Shaman's River is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fa...