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A Note from JOHN TALIAFERROI stumbled upon an account of the Overland Relief Expedition while looking through the papers of President William McKinley in the Library of Congress. I thought I had read my share of ice sagas—Shackleton's breathtaking survival in the Antarctic, Peary's dubious race to the North Pole—but here was a tale that took me by surprise. Initially I considered writing a book that focused strictly on the military angle of the expedition, but as I dug deeper, I found a much richer and, dare I say, warmer story in the lives of the missionaries Ellen and Tom Lopp, who fell in love, married, and raised their children in one of the most extreme environments on earth. Theirs was a "faith-based initiative" in the very best sense. They arrived in Alaska to teach and preach to Eskimos. But quickly, and to their eternal credit, they grasped that "saving" the natives — who had survived and thrived on the shores of the Bering Sea for thousands of years — was less about leading them to "civilization" and more about preparing them for its venalities. |
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-1-58648-221-3 Pub date: 11/20/06 Price: $26.95/32.50 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 448 pages 8 pp. b/w photos Carton Quantity: 12 Biography, History Selling Territory: W Rights: Public Affairs: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Translation, Audio & Electonic Rights ICM: Performace rights PAPERBACK ISBN 978-1586485085 Pub date: 11/12/07 Price: $15.95/19.50 Canada 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 416 pages Carton Quantity: 24 Biography, History Selling Territory: W Pub history: PublicAffairs hc |
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