Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Loewen, Sara

Title Gaining daylight : life on two islands / Sara Loewen
Published Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 140 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Alaska literary series
Alaska literary series.
Contents Preface; Giant Wings; December; Woman Overboard; To Know a Place; Capacious; Unsinkable; The Wait; Hunger & Thirst; Homing; A Lake By Any Other Name; Elementary Love; Pacific Sandwiches; Winter in June; Hometown Ode; Sea Chains Broken; Fifteen Times over the Bridge; Red Caviar; The Simple Life; The Outlaws of Amook Island; Cardinal Points; Acknowledgments; Sources; Notes & Photo Credits
Summary For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the height of salmon season. With this connection to thousands of years of fishing and gathering at its core, Gaining Daylight explores what it means to balance lives on two islands, living within both an ancient way of life and the modern world. Her personal essays integrate natural and island history with her experiences of fishing and family life, a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137)
Notes Print version record
Subject Loewen, Sara.
SUBJECT Loewen, Sara fast
Subject LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Alaska -- Social life and customs
Subject Alaska
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781602231993
1602231990