American

Tales of Fishes

Zane Grey, the American author famous for his popular Western adventure novels, published this non-fiction work in 1919. In addition to being a dentist and writer, Grey was an avid fisherman. This title is full of zesty and manly fishing adventures of watching and wrestling with big game fish off the coast of southern California and is tastefully illustrated with photos taken by the author.

Wilson's Cyclopedic Photography

Author Edward Livingston Wilson’s love of photography was matched only by the magnificence of his facial hair. Wilson’s influence stretched far beyond photography as an artistic medium: in 1864, he published the first photographic journal in the United States, Philadelphia Photographer, which he later humbly renamed Wilson’s Photographic Magazine. He created a separate photographic exhibit for the Centennial Exposition of 1876 for which he was also official photographer.

Eskimo Cook Book

This 1952 cookbook began in an Inupiaq village just 20 miles south of the Arctic Circle as part of an elementary school classroom discussion of locally available native foods for good health.  The teacher’s request for each student to “bring in a recipe or little story of how mother cooked the meat, fish, or other foods used”  resulted in this booklet. Recipes share instructions on preparing indigenous plants and wildlife, from stink weed to polar bear and whale.

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