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He shares tales of Alaska's history, with adventure stories from many nations and the region's indigenous Tlingit Indians. In August 2010, the memoir was broadcast as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. The programme was produced by Rosalynd Ward and the book was read by Colin Stinton. [4] He has also written fiction under the pen name Lynn D'Urso ...
Kirkus Reviews was lukewarm about the novel, describing the characters as puppets and that the historical framework of the book lacked rigor and substance. [9] The Harbus described the book as easily-digestible, compelling, and accessible. [10] The Christian Science Monitor points out that people, rather than events, uniquely shape this ...
Per a 2017 report, the U.S. states of Oregon, Arizona, and Alaska have the highest numbers of missing-person cases per 100,000 people. [6] In Canada—with a population a little more than one tenth that of the United States—the number of missing-person cases is smaller, but the rate per capita is higher, with an estimated 71,000 reported in ...
Over the years, families desperate for answers, media frenzies, and fans who feverishly theory-craft have surrounded numerous high-profile disappearances.From wealthy heiresses lost at sea, to ...
Sailor Song is a 1992 novel written by Ken Kesey.The only work of long fiction solely written by Kesey after Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), Sailor Song depicts the lives of the residents of Kuinak, a small town in Alaska, thirty years in the future – the 2020s.
His book Battleground Alaska explores conflict between state's rights and federalism in environmental policy. [4] His book Frigid Embrace contrasts the non-native Alaskans who come to the state for profit in often exploitative natural resource industries against the indigenous residents lifestyles of people who are permanent residents.
Joseph Balderas, 36, was last seen on June 24, 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Four years later, on August 31, 2020, Florence Okpealuk, 33, vanished from the same town. Podcast host Payne Lindsey traveled ...
Her book Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush detailing the experiences of sex workers in Alaskan boomtowns of the era, made the Los Angeles Times’ Best Nonfiction list in 1999 and got her named Alaska Historian of the Year. [1] [6] She co-founded Epicenter Press with business partner Kent Sturgis in 1988, a regional publishing house ...