Seven Words for Wind: Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands

by Sumner MacLeish

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945397356
• ISBN13: 9780945397359
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding and necessary reading for natural historians

This is a great book about a people who have been overlooked by modern society, CC is an exceptional writer who applies her passion and experience as a world traveller.

A first-hand account of life in the subarctic

St. Paul island, one of the remote Pribilof Islands far off the coast of mainland Alaska, is just 14 miles long and eight miles wide. For over a decade, the author worked, lived on, and came to love this place, its fierce weather, its wildlife, and its people. Her spare, imagistic prose illuminates the darkness and beauty of the subarctic landscape.

-an excellent, poetic, moving description of Pribilof life.

Alaska's Pribilof Islands are incredibly beautiful and surreal. Seven Words for the Wind captures a piece of that beauty through a series of essays and field notes. Having lived in the Pribilofs for four years I was most impressed by the thoughtful nature of this book as well as the insights provided by the author. I would highly suggest this book for anyone intending to visit the islands, see the seal or bird rookeries or just interested in learning about a different culture.