cover image Wake of the Unseen Object: Among the Native Cultures of Bush Alaska

Wake of the Unseen Object: Among the Native Cultures of Bush Alaska

Tom Kizzia. Henry Holt & Company, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-1860-8

On a search for aboriginal culture in Alaska's remote Native Aleut and Eskimo villages, Kizzia discovers Athabaskan softball teams, Yup'ik walrus hunters and alcohol-related crime and death. ``Aficionados of John McPhee's Coming into the Country will be intrigued by another view of Alaska,'' said PW. (Jan.)