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Longtime Alaskan Deb Vanasse first became interested in the story of Kate Carmack when she hiked the "meanest mites" of the Chilkoot Trail, where as a young woman Kate packed for prospectors over the summit. The author of seventeen books, Vanasse is co-founder of 49 Writers. Read more about her at mostra'n més www.debvanasse.com. mostra'n menys

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female
Lloc de naixement
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Llocs de residència
Galesburg, IL; Madison, WI; Davenport, IA; Bethel, AK; Fairbanks, AK; Anchorage, AK
Educació
Bemidji State University (BS|English); California State University (MA Humanities)
Professions
writer, teacher
Biografia breu
Deb Vanasse has authored more than a dozen books. She lives and works on Hiland Mountain outside of Anchorage, Alaska, and at a cabin near the Matanuska Glacier.

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Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .
Roar of the Sea was a very readable and interesting account of the man, Henry Elliott, who championed the fur seals of the Bering Straits from capitalist corporations, governments and pirates over some 50 years. Culminating in the first international treaty written to save endangered wildlife, a model for many such treaties thereafter. The book also profiles one of the more notorious pirates of fur seals. 4.5 stars
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snash | Hi ha 23 ressenyes més | Jan 17, 2023 |
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .
An unsparingly brutal account of the centuries-long mistreatment of the seals and the people of the Pribilof Islands. Vanasse uses sealing pirate Alex MacLean and pioneering and irascible scientist Henry Wood Elliott as her main human characters, and captures well the long debate and diplomatic wrangling over the islands and their inhabitants. I did wish for some images and maps, but even without those, this was still an attention-holding read.
 
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JBD1 | Hi ha 23 ressenyes més | Oct 30, 2022 |
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .
Admittedly a hard read, especially if you don't like reading about animal violence - but truly an important one. I had no idea about the plight of fur seals and the efforts undertaken at the turn of the nineteenth century to save them. Roar of the Sea is part history and part biographies for two dashing men; Henry Wood Elliot, an amateur scientist who by chance went to the Pribilof Islands and fell in love with the fur seals and set about studying them and Alex MacLean, a pirate who specialized in illegally killing seals and selling their pelts. Elliot spent his whole life trying to save the fur seals while MacLean spent his life trying to undermine Elliot and turn a handsome profit. Maclean was s notorious he was even inspiration for Jack London's famed novel, The Sea Wolf. Elliot on the other hand was constantly belittled and challenged by government officials who sought to discredit him in order to keep slaughter tens of thousands of fur seals a year. In mere years the Pribilof Islands had lost more than half their millions of seals and if actions weren't taken they would soon be extinct. A little tedious at times, and definitely violent - but an important enlightening read.… (més)
 
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ecataldi | Hi ha 23 ressenyes més | Oct 24, 2022 |
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .
Vanasse has written a page turner, a rarity among historical nonfiction. Anyone interested in the environment and the history of vanishing species will find it of interest -- not to mention fans of books about piracy, political intrigue, and the tribulations of native peoples. Engrossing, beautifully written.
 
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bookcrazed | Hi ha 23 ressenyes més | Sep 21, 2022 |

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ISBN
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