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Five Hundred Feet Above Alaska

Author : Robert Brantner
Publisher : Elite Online Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781513626420
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Five Hundred Feet Above Alaska written by Robert Brantner and published by Elite Online Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International #1 Amazon Bestseller in SEVEN Categories in the US and CA, including Weather, Commercial Aviation, Piloting & Flight Instruction in the US. Pacific Northwest, Commercial Aviation, Pacific Northwest United States History, and Pacific West Travel in CA. The heart-stopping adventure novel of an Alaskan bush pilot. Five Hundred Feet Above Alaska is the story of Peter Connors, a young man who moves to Alaska in pursuit of his dream of becoming a commercial pilot. While the pilots in Alaska are known for their superior airmanship, they are also famous for their disregard of the rules that govern them. Determined to ultimately be an airline pilot in "the lower forty-eight" Peter vows to walk the straight and narrow. Yet, when Peter is the only pilot available to rescue a comrade who crashed in the snow-covered tundra, he is forced to compromise the very ethics that define him. Over time, Peter's competence begins to overpower his regard for the rules. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Peter begins a downward spiral. The life Peter had carefully constructed for himself is at odds with the "live or die" flying of Alaska. Over the course of a year of doing battle with the elements on a daily basis, armed only with his plane, his wits and his skill to bring him home every night, Peter must decide whether it is more important to embrace life or cheat death.

Alaska's Bush Planes

Author : Ned Rozell
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882409549
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Alaska's Bush Planes written by Ned Rozell and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passion for flight has seized Alaska flyers—and those who yearn to fly to the Last Frontier—since 1913, when the first biplane arrived in crates via steamship and paddle-wheeler. In the decades to follow, Alaska’s skies buzzed with aircraft—some brand-new, others patched together, and still others lovingly restored to their original beauty. Alaska’s Bush Planes offers a brief history of flight in Alaska, then transports the reader on a visual journey with favorite aircraft, some of which have served for decades. It’s a perfect book for the pilot—or the pilot wannabe—who dreams of flying in the Northland.

Water Supply of Nome Region, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 1906

Author : John Clayton Hoyt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Supply of Nome Region, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 1906 written by John Clayton Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles

Author : Mort Mason
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1616731419
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles written by Mort Mason and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Flying the Alaska Wild marveled at Mort Mason’s true tales of braving the elements at the extremes in a Piper Super Cub. But the bush pilot, adventurer, and raconteur was just beginning, and in this book he revisits his most memorable moments of flying by the seat of his pants through blizzards and white-outs, on assignments at times hazardous and sometimes simply whacky, always with a sense of humor and due respect for the limitless wilds of Alaska beneath his wings. The world of a bush pilot really is the final frontier, and for thirty years Mort Mason was there, clocking enough heart-stopping miles to make most life-stories utterly incredible. In The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles Mason recounts more of his unlikely adventures in the face of Alaska’s unforgiving weather and terrain. His stories gives readers the rare chance to experience the disappearing thrills and challenges of meeting the American frontier on its own unyielding terms.

Bush Pilots of Alaska

Author : Kim Heacox
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 9781558680128
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Bush Pilots of Alaska written by Kim Heacox and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a deep breath, buckle your seat belt, and turn the pages of "Bush Pilots of Alaska". Each page is a vicarious thrill, each photo a window into the way Alaskans get around to live, work, and play.

Map of My Dead Pilots

Author : Colleen Mondor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762775831
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Map of My Dead Pilots written by Colleen Mondor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Map of My Dead Pilots is about flying, pilots, and Alaska, the beautiful and deadly Last Frontier. Author Colleen Mondor spent four years running dispatch operations for a Fairbanks-based commuter and charter airline, and she knows all too well the gap between the romance and reality of small plane piloting in the wildest territory of the United States. From overloaded aircraft to wings covered in ice, from flying sled dogs and dead bodies, piloting in Alaska is about living hard and working even harder. What Mondor witnessed day to day would make anyone’s hair stand on end. Ultimately, it is the pilots themselves—laced with ice and whiskey, death and camaraderie, silence and engine roar—and their harrowing tales who capture her imagination. In fine detail, this series of stories reveals the technical side of flying, the history of Alaskan aviation, and a world that demands a close communion with extreme physical danger and emotional toughness.

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow

Author : William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374154844
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Miles from Tomorrow written by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the author's traditional childhood north of the Arctic Circle, his education in the continental U.S., and his lobbying efforts that convinced the government to allocate resources to Alaska's natives in compensation for incursions on their way of life.

Prairie Sky

Author : W. Scott Olsen
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826273041
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Prairie Sky written by W. Scott Olsen and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s almost like ballet. Preflight. Starting. Warm-up. The voices from the control tower—the instructions. Taxiing. The rush down the runway. Airborne. There are names for every move. The run-up. Position and hold. Every move needs to be learned, practiced, made so familiar you feel the patterns in every other thing you do. It’s technical, yes. But there is a grace to getting metal and bone into the sky.” Prairie Sky is a celebration of curiosity and a book for explorers. In this collection of contemplative essays, Scott Olsen invites readers to view the world from a pilot’s seat, demonstrating how, with just a little bit of altitude, the world changes, new relationships become visible, and new questions seem to rise up from the ground. Whether searching for the still-evident shores of ancient lakes, the dustbowl-era shelterbelt supposed to run the length of the country, or the even more elusive understandings of physics and theology, Olsen shares the unique perspective and insight allowed to pilots. Prairie Sky explores the reality as well as the metaphor of flight: notions of ceaseless time and boundless space, personal interior and exterior vision, social history, meteorology, and geology. Olsen takes readers along as he chases a new way of looking at the physical world and wonders aloud about how the whole planet moves in interconnected ways not visible from the ground. While the northern prairie may call to mind images of golden harvests and summer twilight such images do not define the region. The land bears marks left by gut-shaking thunderstorms, hard-frozen rivers, sweeping floods, and hurricane-size storms. Olsen takes to the midwestern sky to confront the ordinary world and reveals the magic--the wondrous and unique sights visible from the pilot’s seat of a Cessna. Like Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic work Wind, Sand and Stars, Olsen’s Prairie Sky reveals the heart of what it means to fly. In the grand romantic tradition of the travel essay, it opens the dramatic paradoxes of self and collective, linear and circular, the heart and the border.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409895
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Field Notes from a Catastrophe written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.

Hundred Feet Tall

Author : Benjamin Scheuer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534432205
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Hundred Feet Tall written by Benjamin Scheuer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guess How Much I Love You meets Someday in this gentle read-aloud picture book that shows us that with just the right amount of care and support, even the smallest of seeds can grow to stand one hundred feet tall. Thanks for the love that you’ve shown me Right now I’m so very small But with water and light I will keep gaining height And then one day I’ll stand at a hundred feet tall Hundred Feet Tall is a tender ode to the power of unconditional, immutable love. Because no matter how small you are now, with patience and persistence, with encouragement and devotion, you, too, will someday grow strong.

Coming Into the Country

Author : John McPhee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907970726
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Coming Into the Country written by John McPhee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunge into the wild climate of unknown Alaska in this riveting travel account.

Alaska, Its Neglected Past, Its Brilliant Future

Author : Bushrod Washington James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Alaska, Its Neglected Past, Its Brilliant Future written by Bushrod Washington James and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature

Author : Charles C. Bombaugh
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368933272
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature written by Charles C. Bombaugh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Travels in Alaska

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Boston, Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Alaska written by John Muir and published by Boston, Mifflin. This book was released on 1915 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in "Travels in Alaska," a work he was in the process of completing at the time of his death in 1914. As Edward Hoagland writes in his Introduction, "A century and a quarter later, we are reading ÝMuir's ̈ account because there in the glorious fiords . . . he is at our elbow, nudging us along, prompting us to understand that heaven is on earth--is the Earth--and rapture is the sensible response wherever a clear line of sight remains." This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes photographs from the original 1915 edition.

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

Author : Charles Warren Stoddard
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska written by Charles Warren Stoddard and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska" by Charles Warren Stoddard immerses readers in an awe-inspiring journey through some of nature's grandest landscapes. Stoddard's lyrical prose and adventurous spirit paint vivid pictures of the untamed beauty of Alaska, evoking a profound appreciation for the wonders of the natural world. This captivating travelogue enthralls armchair explorers and travel enthusiasts alike, transporting them to breathtaking terrains and igniting a sense of wanderlust. Whether trekking through rugged mountains or discovering native wildlife, readers will feel the exhilaration of venturing into the unexplored frontiers of the Alaskan wilderness.

Alaska, the Great Country

Author : Ella Higginson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752380667
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Alaska, the Great Country written by Ella Higginson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Alaska, the Great Country by Ella Higginson

Alaska from the Air

Author : Fred Hirschmann
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN 13 : 1558684662
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Alaska from the Air written by Fred Hirschmann and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hirschmann logged hundreds of hours in small planes in every season and condition in pursuit of the ultimate aerial shots of a state that is larger than Texas, California, and Montana put together. 160 color photos.