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Dancing at the Odinochka (Paperback)
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Dancing at the Odinochka (Paperback)
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List price R369
Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
You Save R41 (11%)
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Nearly 150 years ago, when Alaska belonged to Russia and was called
Russian America, Erinia Pavaloff lived at the Nulato odinochka on
the banks of the Yukon River. Owned by the Russian American
Company, an odinochka was a trading post where native people traded
their furs for precious Russian supplies. Erinia is always busy --
learning to make fur clothing, emptying buckets of snow into water
barrels, helping Mamma, gathering spruce boughs to make fish traps,
and grinding paint for a new canoe. It seems that Erinia works all
the time. So she can hardly wait for visitors -- the company men
who bring stock for trading, or the Indians who come to fish or
sell furs. When visitors come, Erinia and the others are delighted
to listen to old stories and music, and everyone dances at the
odinochka. Life has a good sameness that Erinia counts on...until
the day when American Western Union Telegraph men arrive. Sent up
north to build a telegraph line, the men bring news of the outside
world, new inventions, and customs unfamiliar to Erinia's people.
Everyone at the odinochka listens to the Americans' stories, learns
their funny songs, and dances the waltz that the telegraph men
teach them. But as suddenly as they've come, the telegraph men
leave -- their telegraph line abandoned -- and Erinia is bereft.
Word comes that the United States has purchased Russian America
from Russia; Erinia and her people have become American Alaskans.
Their lives will never be the same, as they struggle to find their
place in this American world that doesn't care about the old ways.
Will there ever again be dancing at their odinochka? Inspired by a
five-page memoir written in 1936 by the real Erinia Pavaloff, a
relative of the author's stepfather, Dancing at the Odinochka is a
stunning story of family, culture, and hope that will leave no
reader untouched.
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