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Disappearance, a Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes
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Disappearance, a Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes Paperback - 1997

by Sheila Nickerson

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Weaving together personal experience and wilderness lore, this poetic journey through Alaska and Alaskan history is “a potent map of love and loss and how we find our way back home through the landscape of the heart” (Terry Tempest Williams).

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Weaving together personal experience and wilderness lore, this poetic journey through Alaska and Alaskan history is "a potent map of love and loss and how we find our way back home through the landscape of the heart" (Terry Tempest Williams).

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  • Title Disappearance, a Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes
  • Author Sheila Nickerson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Harvest Ed
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, San Diego, CA
  • Publication date 1997-04-01
  • ISBN 9780156004985 / 0156004984
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.23 x 5.02 x 0.86 in (18.36 x 12.75 x 2.18 cm)
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Loss (Psychology), Nickerson, Sheila B - Homes and haunts -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97004446
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.805
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Mariner Books, 1997. Softcover. Good. 5x0x7. I live in a place where people disappear", begins Sheila Nickerson in this visionary quest for the missing in the vast and often stormy stretches of Alaska. As Nickerson, on the brink of retirement, sorts through the detritus of an overstuffed office, she becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a colleague whose Cessna 340A was lost in the area known as Alaska's Bermuda Triangle. His vanishing leads her back to earlier searches - for the lost Franklin expedition and for the elusive glory of the North Pole. Setting down her memories as markers, Nickerson travels forward with current occurrences of disappearances - of hikers and climbers, tourists and adventurers, hunters and fishermen, the murdered and unidentified - along with losses of another order: the great shamans, the languages and cultures of the Native peoples, and the natural resources of Alaska, including the oil flowing through the eight-hundred-mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to… Read more
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USA: Doubleday, 1997. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Harvest Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Softcover, first Harvest edition, 288gms, 290 pages. When Sheils Nickerson moved with her family to Alaska, she was unaware of how its vast and magnificent terrain would affect her understanding of herself, her connection with the people around her, and ultimately her interpretation of life itself. In this memoir, Nickerson weaves her experiences with the record of the many people who have disappeared in Alaska forever. Book is in very good condition with minor general wear and tear and mild page discolouration throughout. There is a pen inscription on the inside front endpaper, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..
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