| Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood Contributor(s): Scully, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 160223129X ISBN-13: 9781602231290 Publisher: University of Alaska Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010033800 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.66 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Alaska - Locality - San Francisco, California - Cultural Region - Northern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise, she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra. Later, she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on Nome at the outbreak of World War II. Outside Passage is a lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, simultaneously an emotional account of a young girl's first steps into adulthood and a unique portrait of a vanished frontier life. |
