The way winter comes
Subtitle: Alaska stories
By: Sherry Simpson ; photographs by Charles Mason
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781570611469
Subjects: Description and travel
Description: Winner of the 1997 Chinook Literary Prize, Sherry Simpson's debut collection of essays manifests an original and distinctive vision of Alaska and signals the arrival of an uncommonly accomplished new writer. Simpson is a true Alaskan who lives all of the adventures and traverses the wild places of her essays. Her subjects range from a sobering introduction to the ways of trapping in "Killing Wolves" to a meditation on the terror of disappearing into the Alaskan outback in "The Book of Being Lost". With a clear-eyed, unsentimental appreciation of the great northern place, this writer expresses a commanding view of Alaska.
Table of contents: title: Killing wolves; title: The way winter comes; title: Where bears walk; title: Natural history, or What happens when we're not looking; title: Telling raven stories; title: On the island of desire; title: Strange grace; title: The book of being lost