Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Inhalt: Foreword by Mary C. Pete -- Preface -- A Point of Departure -- Seals' Month, Kittiwakes' Season -- Birds Have Young, Breakup -- Smelt Running Season, Fish Hitting -- King Salmon -- Ponds Freeze, Worst of the -- Time of Going Around, Time of Drumming. - In this remarkable book, James Barker follows the Yup'ik Eskimo of Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta through their year's cycle, beginning with spring seal hunting and ending with the winter dancing that celebrates life on the land. Striking duotone photographs and accompanying text capture a people alert to every opportunity. Whether they are waiting for the weather to clear for hunting or preparing testimony on the effects of oil exploration, they are, in the words of Yup'ik Agnes Kelly Bostrom, "always getting ready.