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Moonlight at midday
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- Creator
- Sally Carrighar
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Knopf, 1958
- Physical Details
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- xix, 392 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocm01264572, ocm01264572
- "Alaska: its animals, ghosts, and people, Eskimos and white settlers, its wildlife and villages and cities, as few outsiders ever see it"--Jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-392) and index.
- Sally Carrighar received a Guggenheim fellowship, and took up the study of the Eskimos and wild animals of the Arctic. She stayed nine years, part of the time in Unalakleet, a primitive, isolated village, supporting herself through writing when her fellowship ran out. Carrighar wrote three books based on her years in the Arctic-- Icebound Summer, Moonlight at Midday, and Wild Voice of the North.
- Part I. A Fine, Complete People: Stormy Route to a Quiet Mind; Every Day Is Saturday; Outpost; In a Man's world-Men; The Proud Eskimo Igloo-Wife; Little Isaac Sing Too Much; Eskimo Love Song. Men of Magic; The Missing Spirit; Even Though Ukfakineritarpitsia; A Race Adrift; Bush Flight -- Part II. Modern Pioneering: A Choice of Challenges; Outwitting the Arctic; Supply Lines; Alaska Wages and Where They Go; The Bountiful Arctic Wilderness -- Part III. Alaska Summons Its Own: One Man's Bonanza; The Mad Eskimo Woman of Diomede; Closing Night