Background Readings:
Jean Aspen, Arctic Daughter
Rick Bass, Caribou Rising
Robert Campbell, In Darkest Alaska
Hedin, The Great Land
Nick Jans, Tracks of the Unseen
Nick Jans, The Grizzly Maze
Lentfer and Servid, Arctic Refuge
Nancy Lord, Beluga Days
Nancy Lord, Green Alaska
James Michener, Alaska
John Muir, Travels in Alaska
Sherry Simpson, The Accidental Explorer
Velma Wallis, Raising Ourselves
Melody Webb, The Last Frontier
Seth Kantner Image
Background Links:
Alaskan Arts
http://sled.alaska.edu/arts.html
http://www.kapvikphotography.com/
Native American perspectives:
http://www.alaskool.org/la_index.html
Seth Kantner on Sarah Palin in Orion
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/dispatches/3602/
Seth Kantner, "The Candy Store," from Shopping for Porcupine
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/features/books/827
Seth Kantner, Hunting Caribou
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/rural-alaska/2067-hunting-caribou
Libby Riddles Home page
http://www.libbyriddles.com/champion.htm
Utne Article about Alaskan literature and ANWAR
http://www.utne.com/2006-05-01/LiteratureoftheLastFrontier.aspx
Bear Activist and Companion Mauled to Death in Alaska (Timothy Treadwell)
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/RelatedInformation/literature.html
http://www.robertwservice.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=95&keywords=Cremation
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/travels_in_alaska/
Katherine McNamara, Reflections, The Bear, The Narrow Road to the Far North
http://www.archipelago.org/vol5-4/endnotes.htm
Images
"Michio Hoshino, a photographer known for his pictures of bears and other wildlife, was mauled to death by a brown bear on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia. He was in his mid-40?s and lived in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is the last photo he took." can i call it? it’s fake. carry on. seriously, let everyone who posts this cgi fakery know that they’re being duped and the above image is a composite of the interior of a tent, a grizzly bear’s body, and a wholly seperate grizzly bear’s head (the image used is actually the FIRST DAMN RESULT when you search google images for “grizzly”).
Images by Michio Hoshino
See blog comments at http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8myqo/michio_hoshino_a_photographer_known_for_his/
fake fake fake. i’ve demonstrated why before and every time i see this image come up i’m going to repost why it’s a fake:
first of all: wrong kind of bear. that’s a (fake) grizzly. notice the cranial shape and the silvertip fur. also: grizzly bears are only found in north america (OOPS! kind of a major oversight for this purported story).
second: he was killed while sleeping at around 4am (article date: 9-22-96), in august, which is at the very end of the midnight sun phase (the sun ain’t that high and hard).
third: the earth does not have three suns, as the highlights in this photograph would lead one to believe. (i’m a gaffer, i get paid well to light things believably/match light sources … this is just a wonky mess of composited images).
fourth: nobody i have ever known in my history of remote camping or hiking/wilderness survival has ever slept with the tentfly tied open.
fifth: kamchatka vodka tastes like rubbing alcohol mixed with old spice and kerosene.
lastly: read about this guy instead. much better story.
