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Before the storm : a year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942 / Fredericka Martin ; edited with supplemental material by Raymond Hudson.
- Title
- Before the storm : a year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942 / Fredericka Martin ; edited with supplemental material by Raymond Hudson.
- Author
- Martin, Fredericka I.
- Publication
- Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2010.
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| Text | Request in advance | F912.P9 M37 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hudson, Ray, 1943-
- Description
- xii, 385 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
- Summary
- The author describes her experience living for a year with her husband on a remote island in Alaska before the government-ordered evacuation of the island at the start of World War II. Recounts the life and times of the Unangan people, the Native peoples' attempts to gain independence, and her own life and living conditions. Features excerpts from Martin's journals.
- Subject
- Martin, Fredericka I
- Berenberg, Samuel R
- Aleuts > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Natural history > Pribilof Islands
- Seals (Animals) > Pribilof Islands > History > 20th century
- Medical care > Pribilof Islands > History > 20th century
- Pribilof Islands (Alaska) > Description and travel
- Pribilof Islands (Alaska) > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Pribilof Islands (Alaska) > History > 20th century
- Saint Paul Island (Alaska) > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Originally an unpublished manuscript written in 1942 entitled The wind is no river.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-375) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781602230767 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1602230765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009035377
- OCLC
- 435711186
- SCSB-10913784
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library