Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

October 30, 2022 Author and Historian Bathsheba Demuth Season 2022 Episode 1030
Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Show Notes

Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern places and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon, where she trained huskies for several years. From the archive to the dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, and ecologies intersect. In addition to her prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, her writing has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is currently the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.   For more, check www.brdemuth.com

slides - https://www.dropbox.com/s/bt1a00cqe1ofnni/BeringStraitTalk.pdf?dl=0