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050 00 $aF912.B2$bT35 2006
082 00 $a979.8/02$222
100 1 $aTaliaferro, John,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95100783
245 10 $aIn a far country :$bthe true story of a mission, a marriage, a murder, and the remarkable reindeer rescue of 1898 /$cJohn Taliaferro.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPublicAffairs,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $ax, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [369]-386) and index.
520 1 $a"In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would surely starve to death by winter's end. Mercifully, an extraordinary missionary, Tom Lopp, and seven Eskimo herders embarked on a harrowing journey to save the ice-imprisoned whalers, driving four hundred reindeer more than seven hundred untracked miles. The trek was unprecedented and epically heroic." "At the heart of the rescue expedition lies another, in some ways more compelling, journey. In a Far Country is the personal odyssey of Tom and Ellen Lopp - their commitment to the natives and the rugged but happy life they built for themselves amid a treeless tundra at the top of the world. The Lopps pulled through on grit and wits, on humility and humor, on trust and love, and by the grace of God. Their accomplishment would surely have received broader acclaim had it not been eclipsed by two simultaneous events: the Spanish-American War and the Alaska gold rush. The United States and its territories were transformed abruptly and irrevocably by these fits of expansionist fever, and despite the thoughtful, determined guidance of the Lopps, the natives of the North were soon overwhelmed by a force mightier than the fiercest Arctic winter: the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aBarrow, Point (Alaska)$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWhaling ships$zAlaska$zBarrow, Point$xHistory$y19th century.
611 20 $aOverland Relief Expedition$d(1897-1898)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006024261
610 20 $aBear (Ship)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80037961
650 0 $aReindeer$zAlaska$zBarrow, Point$xHistory$y19th century.
600 10 $aLopp, William Thomas,$d1864-1939.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001099168
600 10 $aLopp, Ellen Louise Kittredge,$d1868-1947.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001099163
650 0 $aMissionaries$zAlaska$zPrince of Wales, Cape$vBiography.
651 0 $aPrince of Wales, Cape (Alaska)$vBiography.
650 0 $aEskimos$zAlaska$zPrince of Wales, Cape$xHistory$y19th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006009159.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hF912.B2$iT35 2006