Random House, 1988, 868 pages Alaska and its numerous islands have for so many thousands of years been occupied by peoples from Siberia that the "discovery" of this continent by Columbus seems like a current event. Eskimos, Aleuts, Athapascans, Tlingits crossed to this breathtakingly beautiful land in small boats, or, when the floor of the Bering Strait was exposed, they came on foot, as did various huge exotic animals that now no longer exist. Century after century, with little modifi-cation, these people survived, feeding and clothing themselves by their skills as hunters and fishermen. The beginning of this novel portrays the lives and struggles of humans and animals of Alaskan prehistory, and then the story makes a broad leap into the eighteenth century...

ISBN: 9780394551548