Gaining Daylight

Gaining Daylight
Author: Sara Loewen
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2013-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1602231990

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, as well as the challenges of living at the northern edge of the Pacific. Loewen’s writing is richly descriptive; readers can almost feel heat from wood stoves, smell smoking salmon, and spot the ways the ocean blues change with the season. With honesty and humor, Loewen easily draws readers into her world, sharing the rewards of subsistence living and the peace brought by miles of crisp solitude.

The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage

The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage
Author: Emma Teal Laukitis
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2023-08-22
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1632174340

"A cookbook that celebrates abundance, and pays tribute to precious landscapes that offer us such satisfying meals." Food & Wine magazine Follow the Salmon Sisters as they celebrate the seasons through the food, traditions, and rituals of their Alaskan home. Lush photography, charming illustrations, 60 comforting recipes, and 35 traditions showcase and honor the untamed spirit, natural bounty, and seasonal rhythms of land and sea. Open up the rich pages of Harvest & Heritage and step into another world. A landscape dotted with berries, wildflowers, and moose, an ocean rich with salmon, seafood, and kelp. A place of resilience and cherished traditions. While the landscape is vast, the community is tight-knit. This is the world of the Salmon Sisters and they are inviting you to join them through a year of changing seasons and comforting rituals. And yes, deeply satisfying food. The cookbook is organized by season. In each section, readers will find: Recipes ideal for the home cook Illustrated rituals and traditions Stories from Alaskan women on living and eating well A Solstice or Equinox menu to celebrate the seasonal harvest Expansive and intimate photography The recipes and projects are delicious and satisfying. For example, forage spruce tips and make Spruce Tip Ice Cream. Jig for a halibut and then make Halibut Burgers with Wild Chimichurri. Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton, aka the Salmon Sisters, grew up on a homestead in Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands, and they make their livelihood harvesting wild seafood from the pristine, bountiful waters around them. This luxe hardcover reflects their values and vision, with delicious recipes and lovely traditions that is seasonal eating and living at its best.

One Time Fits All

One Time Fits All
Author: Ian R. Bartky
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804756426

One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time—including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.

Summoning Trouble

Summoning Trouble
Author: Hadena James
Publisher: Hadena James
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2022-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Soleil Burns and the investigators of Angel Investigations are on a job when someone breaks into their office and destroys their files. Figuring out who broke in and why is just the beginning of a personal investigation. During her hunt for who broke into her office and why, she will discover her former business partner, Janet has disappeared. Determined to find Janet, Soleil will reveal the life Janet left for was a lie, but why wouldn’t Janet come back home when she realized it was a ploy unless she can’t. Soleil’s quest for answers will uncover a larger conspiracy of evil that wants to take BEDRs goal of making people and demons live together on Earth and go beyond. This group believes demonic possession is the ultimate state of being; all the powers of the demonic along with the benefits of being alive.

Women in British Imperial Airspace

Women in British Imperial Airspace
Author: Liz Millward
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773578668

Using a wealth of archival material, including government documents, Liz Millward investigates the very idea of airspace. She maps the contours of five forms of civilian airspace - the private, the commercial, the imperial, the national, and the body of the pilot herself - as concrete places through which social differences such as gender, class, race, and sexuality were reproduced and challenged.

A Dance of Cranes

A Dance of Cranes
Author: Steve Burrows
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786075768

The sixth instalment of the popular Birder Murder series A trail of a murder leads Domenic Jejeune across a vast continent… Newly estranged from his girlfriend, Lindy Hey, Inspector Domenic Jejeune returns to Southern Ontario, where he receives news that his brother, Damian, has gone missing in Wood Buffalo National Park while conducting research on Whooping Cranes. Domenic immediately heads out to try to find him. Back in the U.K., Jejeune's plan to protect Lindy has failed, and she has been kidnapped by his old foe, Ray Hayes. Jejeune's trusty sergeant, Danny Maik, tracks down Lindy, but there is far more to the situation than he anticipated. With Lindy in imminent danger, Maik is forced into a desperate rescue attempt. Will either of them survive? And if so, can they find their way back to each other?

The Remains of Company D

The Remains of Company D
Author: James Carl Nelson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1429940344

The Remains of Company D follows the members of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, United States First Division in World War I, from enlistment to combat and the effort to recover their remains, focusing on the three major battles at Cantigny, Soissons, and in the Meuse-Argonne and the effect these horrific battles had on the men. James Carl Nelson's important and powerful tale of the different destinies, personalities, and motivations of the men in Company D and a timeless portrayal of men at war.