Outside passage : a memoir of an Alaskan childhood
by Scully, Julia
Edition statement:Modern Library pbk. ed. Published by : Modern Library (New York, NY) Physical details: 219 p. 21 cm. ISBN:0375752404.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 979.804092 Scu (Browse shelf) | Available | 80151 |
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| 979.8 Nas Alaska : | 979.8004971 Peo People of the ice and snow | 979.803 Whe The Alaskans. | 979.804092 Scu Outside passage : a memoir of an Alaskan childhood | 979.805 Ala Alaska: high roads to adventure. | 979.80520222 Bro Alaska national parklands : | 979.80520222 Kyi Alaska |
Originally published: New York : Random House, c1998.
When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage-learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on the radio-and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra-the summer wildflowers and berries, the reindeer, foxes, and wolves. Later she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on Nome at the outbreak of World War II. A lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, Outside Passage is simultaneous.
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