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Bruce travels to Alaska, America's last great wilderness, where modern-day pioneers are harvesting the vast natural wealth of the seas. Bruce learns the ropes on-board a salmon-fishing boat, and di...
Bruce travels to Alaska, America's last great wilderness, where modern-day pioneers are harvesting the vast natural wealth of the seas. Bruce learns the ropes on-board a salmon-fishing boat, and dives to the bottom of the Bering Sea to look for gold. In the far north Bruce witnesses the annual whale hunt of the Inupiak people whose ancient tradition is now at odds with the modern world and questions what is more important: the life of a whale or the death of a culture? A BBC Production.
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- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2014], c2011
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- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (52 min.)) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn889696880
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 10, 2014.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- America's Frontier (2:45) -- Alaska Salmon Industry (4:58) -- Alaskan Salmon Regulations (4:08) -- Fishing Livelihoods (2:36) -- Alaska's Modern Gold Rush (2:19) -- Nome Prospecting Community (3:23) -- Dredging for Gold (7:20) -- Alaskan Whale Hunting (2:49) -- Inuit Whaling Beliefs (3:13) -- Encountering Alaskan Polar Bears (2:45) -- Gaining Trust in Kaktovik (1:41) -- Iñupiat Whaling Process (4:38) -- Inuit Whale Celebration (5:34) -- Sharing an Inuit Harvest (3:02) -- Credits: Alaska: Arctic with Bruce Parry (0:31)