Moments Rightly Placed: An Aleutian Memoir

Hudson, Ray

ISBN 10: 0945397496 / ISBN 13: 9780945397496

Published by Epicenter Press, 1998

About this Item

Warmly inscribed by the editor on the title page as well as flat signed further down the same page. Foreword by Gary Snyder, 223 pages, notes and references. Light vertical crease on the rear cover, text clean.

Seller Inventory # 008127

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moments Rightly Placed: An Aleutian Memoir
• Publisher: Epicenter Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0945397496
• ISBN 13: 9780945397496
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Crafts

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Synopsis

Along a thousand-mile chain of treeless and windswept islands, Unalaska is perched at the end of the world, or, as some prefer to say, the beginning. In 1964, Ray Hudson, 22, landed in Unalaska village with a brand-new college degree, eager to teach. The Aleuts had seen many outsiders who had come but seldom stayed more than a year. Yet Hudson was no short-timer. Captivated by Unalaska and the history and traditions of its enduring people, he stayed. As the years passed--one, then five, ten, then twenty--he was embraced by his Aleut neighbors, sharing their celebrations and tragedies, teaching their children, exploring their language, and, much to their surprise, learning their delicate art of grass basketry. Ray Hudson's intimate memoir weaves together landscape and language, storytelling and silence, ancient mythology and day-to-day village life. Ultimately he pays homage to the people he came to teach, and who, in the end, were his teachers.