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Author : John Bufvers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (417 download)
Download or read book A Cheechako's First Year in Alaska written by John Bufvers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean Michael Flynn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429973978
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Land of the Radioactive Midnight Sun written by Sean Michael Flynn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From moose attacks to the midnight sun--an amusing, Bill Bryson-like account of one man's first year in Alaska "In New York City, a Cheechako (chee CHA-ko) would be the kid who just fell off the turnip truck. No street smarts. A pink windbreaker. A subway map sticking from his back pocket...In Alaska, a Cheechako is even easier to spot. He's the guy with his tongue stuck to a metal pole. A tenderfoot. A greenhorn." Land of the Radioactive Midnight Sun is the story of Lt. Sean Michael Flynn as he tries to survive his first year in Alaska. With romantic notions of Jack London and Bush piloting, Lt. Flynn requests a transfer to Eielson Air Force Base outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a bit unnerved at how easy the transfer goes through. From a rugby game on a frozen river to living across from Santa's Village to soaring over the Bush in an F-16, Land of the Radioactive Midnight Sun is a hilarious trial-by-many-errors account of what it takes to become a true Alaskan.
Author : Jill Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692496329
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Becoming Frozen written by Jill Homer and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Homer was just another naive young woman who followed a man to the Last Frontier - but it was Alaska that won her heart. This memoir is a love story about the wonderful, humorous, and sometimes harrowing experiences that await when a woman throws her heart to the wind just to see where it lands. After taking a job at a weekly newspaper in Homer, Alaska, Jill and her partner forge a new life in a town where artists and sport fishermen drive the local economy, grizzly bears roam through back yards, social outings feature death-defying ski trips or kayaking rough seas in freezing rain, and business attire means wearing three sweaters to an unheated office. As Jill adapts to Homer's idiosyncrasies, she finds her own quirky hobby - riding a bike on snow. Despite having little in the way of an athletic background or talent, Jill signs up for a hundred-mile race across frozen wilderness. As the harsh Alaskan winter sets in, she launches a tenacious training routine that takes her far out of her comfort zone. Here, under the Northern Lights, battling exhaustion and extreme cold, Jill discovers the heart of Alaska. And there's no going back.
Author : Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781470185909
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Cheechako written by Jonathan Thomas Stratman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Rollins, a greenhorn––cheechako––(chee-chock-oh) is miserable in his new Alaska life. In addition to the bully after him, he can't seem to make any friends in school and doesn't know a thing about dogsleds, riverboats, hunting, or surviving at 40 degrees below zero. Even though he doesn't feel very brave, Will darts out alone onto rampaging river ice to rescue a stranded dog. His bravery wins him a valuable, trained sled dog, Blackie, and a new human friend as well, an Alaskan Indian boy named Elias. It's Elias who challenges and inspires the cheechako to become a rugged outdoorsman and a real Alaskan. Will starts out by feeding, harnessing and then driving a sled dog team. He learns to throw a hatchet–and hit what he aims at! He learns to snowshoe and stay alive in the cold, to challenge his fears and to push on when everything he wants to do is quit. Best of all, he learns to be a good friend.But when a fierce, Siberian blizzard rampages across central Alaska, stranding Will's family, nearly burying their log cabin in wind-blown snow drifts,it will be up to Will and Blackie to try to make it out alive. With Elias injured and Will's family in danger of freezing, can a cheechako save them? Can he save himself?
Author : Stephen Ruben Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Cheechako Teacher written by Stephen Ruben Carter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventy percent of teachers in rural Alaska come from the lower 48, most having little to no introduction to the culture they are entering or what will be asked of them as teachers. The turnover rate of teachers in rural Alaska far outstrips the national average; in some rural districts turnover is nearly 100 percent each year. This leads us to conclude that the first year of teaching in rural Alaska must be highly charged experience. Though many studies have been done on first-year teachers in rural Alaska, none has focused on the teachers' personal writings produced while in the midst of their experience. This study is a narrative inquiry into the first-person accounts of first-year teachers in rural Alaska from 1896 to 2006. The study constructs "plot points", (meaning events and tensions that drive the teachers' narratives) that delimit the structure of the average first-year Alaskan teacher story. The accounts are divided into two sections: historical accounts and contemporary accounts. Each of these sections is divided according to a series of plot points, namely: (1) the decision, (2) the arrival, (3) the first day of school, (4) collisions, (5) integration, and (6) effectiveness (historical section only), and (7) the final decision (contemporary teachers only). The study points out the similarities and contrasts between historical accounts and contemporary accounts and seeks to bring these into dialogue with Alaska-specific pedagogical theories. The study concludes that the utility of first-year teachers' writings is not derived from their prescriptions, but their descriptions. Thus, the study recommends (1) that more first-person written narratives be gathered from first-year teachers in rural Alaska to facilitate a more in depth study, (2) that new teachers in Alaska avail themselves of the written narratives of their professional forebears, (3) that Alaska's public education system create room for first-year teachers to tell their stories in non-judgmental settings, and (4) that future study also focus on perceptions of first-year teachers by their students and village"--Leaves iii-iv.
Author : John Bufvers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (417 download)
Download or read book A Cheechako in Alaska written by John Bufvers and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte Cameron
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267775026
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book A Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon (Classic Reprint) written by Charlotte Cameron and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon The war, thank God, had ended. There was no further sacrifice of splendid lives. And as I progressed through that beautiful State of California, Queen of the Pacific, with its glorious sunshine, carpets of wild-flowers, snow-clad moun tains, and golden harvests of yellow oranges, yellow gold, and, in the north, yellow grain, I began to have thoughts of Alaska. On the Pacific Coast one seems, quite near, as Seattle is the principal port for embarkation to Alaska. One meets people who have lived there, who speak of the Great Country, as the Indians used to. Call it. My mind was made up. Here, then, was an opportunity to realize that dream of my childhood and see Nome. But I am patriotic, and ardently desired to see the Yukon as well, so determined to wait until the snow and ice had melted in June. And thus it happened that in Golden California I abided until the season favoured my long-anticipated journey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charlotte Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon written by Charlotte Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pam Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Cheechako Green and Neat written by Pam Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Lehe
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1594332665
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Colony Kids written by Heather Lehe and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1935, during the Great Depression, and Paul’s family is out of work and out of money. They have nothing but a little ramshackle farm in Minnesota. Now that's gone, too. Suddenly, an incredible opportunity opens up for 202 families, including Paul's, but it means moving far away, to a land few people know anything about. Will his family go? Will Paul have to leave his friends, family, and beloved dog, Rascal? Then Paul meets tomboyish Maggie and adventurous Erik, also kids of new colonists, and together they face the unique realities of living in the far north. Based on true stories, follow the trials and adventures of Paul, Maggie, and Erik as their families start over in hopes of building a new life in a strange land so far away. Will they make it?
Author : Norma Cobb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312283797
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Arctic Homestead written by Norma Cobb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles a family's efforts to build a home near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, depicting their moving discovery of love and courage in a land of modern-day outlaws, feuds, grizzly bears, and unbelievably harsh winters.
Author : Charlotte Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book A Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon ... With a Map and Thirty-six Illustrations written by Charlotte Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory W. Kimura
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231087
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Alaska at 50 written by Gregory W. Kimura and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009 Alaska celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of U.S. statehood. To commemorate that milestone, Alaska at 50 brings together some of today’s most noteworthy and recognizable writers and researchers to address the past, present, and future of Alaska. Divided into three overarching sections—art, culture, and humanities; law, economy, and politics; and environment, people, and place—Alaska at 50 is written in highly accessible prose. Illustrations and photographs of significant artefacts of Alaska history enliven the text. Each contributor brings a strong voice and prescription for the next fifty years, and the resulting work presents Alaskans and the nation with an overview of Alaska statehood and ideas for future development.
Author : United States. Department of the Interior. Office of Information
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Natural Resources of Alaska written by United States. Department of the Interior. Office of Information and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Davis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595282601
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Fifty-Five Years in the Alaskan Bush written by Jeff Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a half century ago, John Swiss acquired a remote property on the far shore of Cook Inlet 100 air miles southwest of Anchorage. Polly Creek is a place of dreams. With a backdrop of snow-draped peaks, razor clam beds stretch out from the cabin's front door, salmon race through nearby seas and fresh brown bear tracks pockmark the sand at his doorstep. Moose and bear, beaver, eagles and whales are his neighbors. Over the years, he has trapped, fished, hunted, prospected, guided and flown his way into the realm of legend. John's career as a bear guide spans Alaskan bear hunting from the immediate post war period to the present time. He has guided black and brown bear hunters for all these years and polar bear hunters for 18 of the 20 years it was a popular sport. This book is told for the most part in John's own words. John's spellbinding stories unwind slowly at first, from his upstate New York childhood. He is a true pioneer of the North and just as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett did before him, he blazed a trail into the unknown land to the west of civilization and carved a life out of the wilderness.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Committee Study Resolution--Alaskan Fisheries Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Bernard Camp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Alaska Tales for the "Cheechako" written by Frank Bernard Camp and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
