In A Different Light
by Meyer, Carolyn

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A coastal Yup'ik Eskimo village in Alaska, near the Arctic Circle, is part of the United States and yet it is isolated from it by geography and climate, by language and culture, by history and experience. In summertime, the sun hardly sets; in wintertime, a time of deep cold and long, long nights, the sun barely creeps above the horizon. Using a representative fictional family in just such a village, Carolyn Meyer interweaves the rich traditions of the Yup'ik people with the way life is now lived in the isolated villages – and in the cities - of Alaska. For David and Adeline Koonuk and their family, friends, and relatives, hunting, fishing, and gathering are chief occupations of spring and summer. Then life in this Yup'ik Eskimo village turns inward.

In the eighteen years since Carolyn Meyer's first visit to this part of Alaska and her first book about it, Eskimos: Growing Up in a Changing Culture, many changes have taken place, some good, some not so good, as the Yup'iks struggle to remain who they are and at the same time strive to find a place in harmony with the outside world.

By a writer well-known for both her novels and her nonfiction, this excellent study of Yup'ik Eskimo culture that reads like fiction is a timely and important book that will introduce young readers in other parts of the United States to a way of life vastly different from their own, far from the perspective of young people in the Far North.

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Quantity:	1 item(s) available
Weight:	0.40 kg
Price:	CDN$ 60.00 (US$ 58.39)

ISBN-10:	0689801467
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780689801464
Stock Number:	70654AN
Author:	Meyer, Carolyn
Publisher:	McElderry Books New York
Publication Date:	1996
Pages:	181 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8vo - over 7¾
Binding:	Original Cloth
Condition:	Very Good / Very Good