The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos - Softcover

Jans, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088240458X ISBN 13: 9780882404585

Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books, 2007

Synopsis

From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people―the Inupiat Natives, an ancient culture on the cusp of change.

Making a poignant connection between the world he describes and the world of the Inupiat once knew, Nick Jans invokes with stunning power the life of the Eskimos in the harsh arctic and the mystical aura of the wilderness of the far North. With the eye of an outdoorsman and the heart of a poet, Jans weaves together these 23 essays with strands of Native American narrative, making vivid a place where wolves and grizzlies still roam free, hunters follow the caribou, and old women cast their nets in the dust as they have for countless generations. But looming on the horizon is the world of roads and modern technology; the future has already arrived in the form of stop signs, computers, and satellite dishes. Jans creates unforgettable images of a proud people facing an uncertain future, and of his own journey through this haunting timeless landscape.

About this title

From the Publisher:

With the eye of an outdoorsman and the heart of a poet, Jans weaves together the twenty-three essays of THE LAST LIGHT BREAKING with strands of Inupiat Eskimo narrative, making vivid the remote and wild arctic. Jans creates unforgettable images of a proud people facing an uncertain future, and of his own journey through this haunting, timeless landscape.

Hailed as one of the best new books about Alaska when it was first released in 1993, THE LAST LIGHT BREAKING is now one of the classics of Alaska literature.

About the Author:

Nick Jans is one of Alaska’s most recognized and prolific writers. A contributing editor to Alaska Magazine and a member of USA Today’s board of editorial contributors, he’s written several books, including A Place Beyond, and hundreds of magazine articles, and contributed to many anthologies. His range includes poetry, short fiction, literary essays, natural history, outdoor adventure, fishing, and political commentary. He has been the recipient of numerous writing awards including a Rasmuson Foundation artist grant. He currently lives in Juneau with his wife, Sherrie, and travels widely in Alaska. He returns each year to Ambler, the arctic Inupiaq Eskimo village in which he lived for 20 years, and the place he still calls “home.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 088240458X
• ISBN 13: 9780882404585
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224