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MARC recordA republic of rivers: three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon / John A. Murray, ed.
| Title: | A republic of rivers: three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon / John A. Murray, ed. |
| Author(s): | Murray, John A., |
| Date: | 1990. |
| Publisher: | New York: Oxford University Press |
| Abstract: | First comprehensive anthology on subject with selections by a wide range of authors (explorers, naturalists, missionaries, native peoples, etc.) writing between 1741 and present day. Contains 48 short extracts grouped by date into three periods: 1741-1866 Russian America and the age of exploration; 1867-1958 Territorial Alaska and the age of exploitation; and 1959-1989 Alaskan statehood and the age of environmentalism. |
| Keywords: | 82 -- Literature. 93 -- History. 91(091) -- Exploration, history. Y -- Descriptive general accounts. (*40) -- North American Arctic. (*49) -- Alaska. (*41) -- Canada. (*430) -- Yukon Territory. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*40)[1990] |
| SPRI record no.: | 107779 |
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