Sailing by Ravens : poems /

<Div>Gillnetter, mariner, and naturalist Holly Hughes has experienced first-hand the practical and philosophical consequences of navigating difficult waters. In <i>Sailing by Ravens</i>, she gathers wisdom gained from thirty seasons working off Alaska's shores, weaving persona...

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Main Author: Hughes, Holly J
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2014]
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505 0 |a North; The Navigational Fix; Horizon; Captive; Artifacts; Desire Lines; Desire is never on the map; Barometer; So Many Superstitions to Defy; Heading for Town; Body Memory; What She Can't Say; Correcting for Variation; Correcting for Deviation; What the Sea Takes, Gives Back; Steer for the Light; Because the sea never forgets; West; Hsui; What Was Lost; Wind Rose; This World More Properly Resembles a Heart; Mercator Writes His Epitaph; Painting of John Harrison; The Forestaff 1587; The Wounded Dog Theory: My Dog Responds; The Statue of Flavio Gioia; Bravo Ocean; Cow Falling, Again 
505 8 |a LeapSouth; Here Be Dragons; Navigating the Body; Terra Incognita; Triangulate; Deep Space; Catenary; Tied, Untied; Flot sam; Jetsam; Horse Latitudes; Equilibrate; Adrift; Existence Doubtful; Melancholia: Rima Dissolutas; She Speaks in Tongues; East; Lost; Landlocked; Dead Reckoning; The Coriolis Effect; She Dreams of Great Circle Sailing; Boxing the Compass; True North; Working on Deck; Eye Splice; Sailing by Ravens; Steering by Monarchs; Reckoning, Again; And the Universe Curved; All the Unseen Forces; Notes; Acknowledgments 
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