Alaska Blues


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For seven months, Upton steered his 32-foot boat through Southeast Alaska, fishing for salmon. His account of that season of fishing and surviving covers not only the whims of nature but also the shifting fortunes of the fishing industry itself.




Alaska Blues


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Narrative description of fishing in the Inside Passage of British Columbia and Alaska.




Insiders' Guide® to Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska


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From breathtaking mountains to untamed coastlines, Insider's Guide to Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska features Prince William Sound, the Kenai Peninsula, Anchorage, and Denali National Park.




Wilderness Blues


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Alaska Blues


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Journey with fishing veteran Joe Upton through open channels and narrow fjords, past tiny villages, and deserted canneries. Experience the life of the independent fisherman in this evocative, true-life account of four months aboard a 32-foot troller in Alaska's Inside Passage.




Bering Sea Blues


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Joe Upton recounts his experiences while commercial fishing for Alaskan king crab in the Bering Sea during the 1971 season.




The Sky Blues


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Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the entire school in this witty, heartfelt, and ultimately hopeful debut novel for fans of What if it’s Us? and I Wish You All the Best. Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school’s annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom—and he has thirty days to do it. What better way to start living loud and proud than by pulling off the gayest promposal Rock Ledge, Michigan, has ever seen? Then, Sky’s plans are leaked by an anonymous hacker in a deeply homophobic e-blast that quickly goes viral. He’s fully prepared to drop out and skip town altogether—until his classmates give him a reason to fight back by turning his thirty-day promposal countdown into a school-wide hunt to expose the e-blast perpetrator. But what happens at the end of the thirty days? Will Sky get to keep his hard-won visibility? Or will his small-town blues stop him from being his true self?




Those Alaska Blues


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Darker Blues


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2 compact disc one is compilation of all fat possum artist. the other compact disc is of r.l. burnside




The Fur Farms of Alaska


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After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being started in Alaska within a few years. The Great Depression, and later the development of warm, durable, and lightweight synthetic materials during World War II, brought further decline and eventual failure to the industry as the postwar economy of Alaska turned to defense and later to oil. The Fur Farms of Alaska brings this history to life by capturing the remarkable stories of the men and women who made fur their livelihood. “For more than 200 years ‘soft gold’ brought many people to Alaska. Fur farming was Alaska’s third-largest industry in the 1920s, and Sarah Isto writes of the many efforts, successes, and ultimately of the fur farming industry’s failure. This well-researched history contextualizes current fox elimination projects on Alaska islands and explains the abandoned pens one stumbles across. This is a story that has long needed to be written.”—Joan M. Antonson, Alaska State Historian