Long-time Alaska resident Naomi Klouda has been interested in Alaska glaciers since she was a student at Diamond High School in Anchorage. Now living in Homer, her book, The Alaska Glacier Dictionary, was published by Cardamom Press earlier this year. She is a retired journalist contributing to papers around the state: the Anchorage Daily News, the Anchorage Times, the Tundra Drums in Bethel, the Kodiak Daily Mirror, the Valley Frontiersman in Palmer and the Homer Tribune. This is her second book publication.
The other key feature is how humans have interacted with glaciers over time and this led to the choice of the book’s cover photo, taken by Jim Lavrakas. Klouda explained in more detail:
“The cover photo is of Carly Dixon over at Tutka Bay. We did debate and try different kinds of photographs out for the cover. Jim had some photos that were, you know, much more, you know, conservative. We chose this one because of the sort of the shock of climate change is such that people can wade in and and, you know, we’re having global warming to such an extent that it’s changing the interaction between us and our glaciers.”…