Research Catalog

Title

Where mountains are nameless : passion and politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge : including the story of Olaus and Mardy Murie / Jonathan Waterman.

Author

Waterman, Jonathan

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.

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Description

xxi, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

"Jonathan Waterman blends historical narrative with tales of his journeys into the Arctic wilderness, creating a tension between past and present, science and politics, reflection and investigation. Since 1983 he has taken eighteen trips to the far North, and spent over two hundred days in and around the embattled refuge. While paddling or trekking cross-country, Waterman encounters howling wolves, British Petroleum workers, Inupiat hunters, and the oil-ravaged Prince William Sound. Where Mountains are Nameless explores how the hunt for oil has choked Alaska's pristine wilderness and also traces the lives of the celebrated Muries, who spearheaded the establishment of the original wildlife range. This portrait makes the stakes over the refuge vividly clear."--Jacket.

Subject

• Murie, Olaus J. 1889-1963
• Murie, Margaret E
• Natural history > Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Petroleum > Environmental aspects > Alaska
• Endangered ecosystems > Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-267) and index.

Contents

Eskimo lessons -- Caribou -- Oil -- Wolves -- Mosquitoes and warbles -- Kongakut river -- Barren-ground grizzlies -- Fairbanks -- Prudhoe Bay and the pipe -- Teaching moments -- Flying -- Final duet.

ISBN

0393052192

LCCN

^^2005001374

OCLC

• 57557704
• SCSB-10056169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library