Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902
Lopp-Smith, Kathleen and Smith, Verbeck (edited and annotated by); Ray, Dorothy Jean (foreword)
Language: English
Published by University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK, 2001
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Priority or international shipping will cost mTight, clean copy. Unmarked interior. Signed by the authors on title page. Pictorial wraps in nice condition with slight wear at corners. Small crease on upper right hand corner. A highly readable and informative volume of historical value, one that is descriptive and vivid in it's details. 392 pages packed with black and white photos, illustrations and more.
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- Title
- Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902
- Author
- Lopp-Smith, Kathleen and Smith, Verbeck (edited and annotated by); Ray, Dorothy Jean (foreword)
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1889963216
- ISBN 13
- 9781889963211
- Illustrator
- Lopp-Smith, Kathleen and Kitteredge-Lopp, Ellen
- Dimensions
- 10" Tall
Ellen shared her observations and experiences in letters to family and friends. This window expands our knowledge of a vital period in Alaska history and offers an intimate view of people's lives and turn-of-the-century events at Cape Prince of Wales. Most important, as renowned anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray has commented, Ellen's letters clearly show the kind of person who was the best representative of a culture destined to change another culture. Unlike many teachers and missionaries, the Lopps accepted the villagers as their friends rather than as people to be subjugated. Most of Ellen's letters were saved and passed down through the family; they make up the core of this book. Editor Kathleen Lopp Smith, Ellen's granddaughter, augments the text with annotations and numerous photographs, making this a highly readable and informative volume of historical value, one that is descriptive and vivid in its details.
2002 Pathfinder Award Winner, Alaska Historical Society
"That these letters and diaries survive is a wonder; that Lopp Smith has done such an admirable job of bringing them to light is a revelation. . . . (Lopp Smith) combines excerpts of diaries and letters her grandparents, Ellen Kittredge and Thomas Lopp, wrote, to carefully chronicle hardship, exploration, scandal and, above all, daily life. A vivid writer and a keen observer, Kittredge recorded everything, usually while nursing a child: the amazing experience of 'midnight sun'; a 600-mile missionary dogsled trip while pregnant; the butchering of a whale; the scandalous exile of one of the other whites in the area for adultery with a Native American; questions over theology as she attempts to teach Old Testament ideas to the 'Eskimos'. In conditions where every drop of water comes from heating snow seven months of the year, where Kittredge (who bore six children during the decade) teaches, preaches and tends to the sick, money is worthless. Services are traded for scarce food. Siberians and gold rush miners bring disease as they pass through and Native infant mortality runs high. Yet despite these circumstances, Kittredge and Lopp work hard, taking photographs (which they develop outside in sunlight), print a newsletter (The Eskimo Bulletin), and train Natives to set type as well as herd." (Publisher's Weekly)
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