The Wake of the Unseen Object: Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes

Bison Books, 1998. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. Signed by Author. About four page corners have been creased. Gift inscription by and signed by Tom Kizzia. (And with brief gift inscription by previous owner). Signed copies rarely offered. In the course of a two-year odyssey . . . Kizzia visited numerous native settlements, interviewed leaders and followers, and wrote the feature articles that make up this charming, informative book. . . . Kizzia writes a clear, unobtrusive prose that crystallizes in memorable images.- Washington Post A boatful of native Alaskans slapping downriver through the chop on their way to the biggest softball game of the season. A hunter singing the old songs for hunting luck, as he snowmobiles onto the ice with his rifle. Such contrasts-Eskimo and outsider, ancient and modern-run through Tom Kizzia's chronicle of travels in the Alaska bush in search of 'ancestral landscapes. Tom Kizzia traveled widely in rural Alaska during a 25-year career as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He was named 2022 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017.