The Quality of Silence (37 page)
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Authors: Rosamund Lupton
Nick Jans,
The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska’s Inupiat Eskimos
(Oregon: Alaska Northwest Books, 1993)
Bernd Heinrich,
The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
(London: HarperCollins, 2014)
Sara Wheeler,
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2009)
Pat Forgey, ‘“‘Fracking” for oil likely to grow in Alaska’ (JuneauEmpire.com, 2012)
Margaret Kriz Hobson, ‘Shale Oil: Geologist’s Alaska Gamble Could Turn Into America’s Next Big Shale Play’,
Energy Wire
(E & E Publishing, 2013)
Maureen Clark, ‘State considers checkpoints, restrictions on Dalton Highway traffic in response to attacks’ (
Peninsula Clarion
, 2001)
Kyle Hopkins, ‘Frozen Landslide Threatens to Devour Dalton Highway’ (
Alaska Dispatch News
, 2012)
Doug O’Harra, ‘On the Dalton Highway – Just How Bad Can it Get?’ (
Anchorage Daily News
, 2001)
‘Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (unconventional gas and oil extraction)’ (Concerned Health Professionals of NY, 2014)
‘Alaska Native Villages Annual Report 2012’ (United States Environmental Protection Agency)
I am also grateful to the following websites:
www.inupiatheritage.org
www.iccalaska.org
www.alaskacenters.gov
www.inuitcircumpolar.com
www.adfg.alaska.gov
dec.alaska.gov
www.nationalgeographic.com
www.worldwildlife.org/
ecowatch.com
www.handspeak.com
www.british-sign.co.uk
www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk
www.ndcs.org.uk
: The National Deaf Children’s Society believes that every deaf child should be valued and included by society and have the same opportunities as any other child. For more information and advice visit the above website.
The first documentary I watched on hydraulic fracturing was ‘Gasland’ by Josh Fox. Since then I’ve read, watched and listened to many articles, reports, speeches and blogs about fracking but ‘Gasland’ remains the stand-out piece for me. ‘The Sky is Pink’ by Josh Fox and the ‘Gasland’ team can be seen on Vimeo and YouTube.
Photos and video of almost every mile of the Dalton highway can be viewed in Google Earth and on YouTube. There are blogs by drivers, tourists and bikers who travel the Dalton Highway and post photo-journals. I am grateful to all of them for giving me their literal viewpoint.
The following apps have also been valuable:
British Sign Language Reference Dictionary app
British Sign Language fingerspelling app
Inupiat dictionary app – the many words for snow are evocative of the land where this language is spoken. The first word for snow is
apiqammiaq
– meaning new snow, and then words for different types of snow go all the way through the alphabet to
uupkaagnaq
. The dictionary also gives an Inupiat daily word. Tonight as I write this it is
qailliaqsruk
– ripple on water; (i) to ripple, be disturbed
Rosamund Lupton
’s debut novel
Sister
is a
Sunday Times
and
New York Times
bestseller and has been translated into over thirty languages with international sales of over 1.5 million copies. It was the fastest selling debut of 2010 by a British author, a BBC Radio 4, Book at Bedtime and was winner of the Richard and Judy Best Debut Novel of 2011 award and the
Strand Magazine
Critics First Novel Award. Lupton’s critically acclaimed second novel
Afterwards
was published in June 2011 and went straight into the
Sunday Times
bestseller lists and was the No. 2
Sunday
Times
fiction bestseller of 2011.
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