Seven Words for Wind
Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
160 pages
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Far off the coast of mainland Alaska lie the remote Pribilof Islands—a fiercely isolated wilderness surrounded by a wild, rich sea. The largest island, St. Paul, is just fourteen miles long and eight wide; despite its small size and relative self-enclosure, Sumner MacLeish lived and worked on the island, coming to love its rugged weather, abundant wildlife, and 600 native Aleuts. Her spare, imagistic prose illuminates the unforgiving darkness and unimaginable beauty of this subarctic landscape, and the pieces in Seven Words for Wind relate her own experience with attentive, open curiosity that finds light, humor, and companionship where it might least be expected.
Contents
Foreword by B.G. Olson
Acknowledgments
Map of St. Paul Island
Slatux
A sequence of winds, to blow hard
Slachxidaasaadugûlux
A very strong storm
Slam Kadiiguxtaa
A contrary wind
Alagulix
To go into the sea
Asxi-lix
To go against the wind
Qutaxt
Blowing up from land
Qag, Agaagalix
East wind, west wind
Chaxatax
An offshore wind
Further Reading
Author's Note
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