Hoshino's Alaska

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811856515
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (565 download)

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Book Synopsis Hoshino's Alaska by : Michio Hoshino

Download or read book Hoshino's Alaska written by Michio Hoshino and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michio Hoshino traveled from his native Japan to Alaska in 1972 for what was to be a two-week trip. Enchanted, he stayed for three months, then returned to live there in 1978, undertaking a lifelong career as a naturalist and photographer driven by a deep commitment to and curiosity about the region. Killed by a bear while traveling in Russia in 1996, he is still widely regarded as the preeminent photographer of the Alaskan wilderness for his breathtakingly beautiful photographs, at once majestic and intimate. Hoshino's Alaska celebrates his life and work by collecting nearly 150 of his bestimages, along with insightful excerpts from his writings, and essays by his close friend and translator Karen Colligan-Taylor and by author and photographer Lynn Schoolerrevealing both the heart of Alaska and of the man behind the lens.

The Blue Bear

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060935731
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blue Bear by : Lynn Schooler

Download or read book The Blue Bear written by Lynn Schooler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories of the brutal death of a woman he loved, Lynn Schooler kept the world at arm's length, drifting through the wilds of Alaska as a commercial fisherman, outdoorsman, and wilderness guide. In 1990, Schooler met Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino, and began a profound friendship cemented by a shared love of adventure and a passionate quest to find the elusive glacier bear, an exceedingly rare creature, seldom seen and shrouded in legend. But only after Hoshino's tragic death from a bear attack does Schooler succeed in photographing the animal -- completing a remarkable journey that ultimately brings new meaning to his life. The Blue Bear is an unforgettable book. Set amid the wild archipelagoes, deep glittering fjords, and dense primordial forests of Alaska's Glacier Coast, it is rich with the lyric sensibility and stunning prose of such nature classics as Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams and Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard.

Grizzly

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Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Grizzly by : 星野道夫

Download or read book Grizzly written by 星野道夫 and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1987 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs show the life of Alaskan grizzly bears from spring to fall and are accompanied by notes on the bear's behavior.

Shopping for Porcupine

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571313010
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Shopping for Porcupine by : Seth Kantner

Download or read book Shopping for Porcupine written by Seth Kantner and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from family histories to hunting stories, celebrations of people and places to a lament over a majestic wilderness rapidly disappearing, Shopping for Porcupine provides a compelling, intimate view of America's last frontier -- the same place that captivated so many readers of Ordinary Wolves.

On My Block

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Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892392209
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (922 download)

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Book Synopsis On My Block by : Dana Goldberg

Download or read book On My Block written by Dana Goldberg and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen artists portray, in words and pictures, the places that are most special to them.

Alaska's Savage River

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Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1594334552
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska's Savage River by : Valerie Winans

Download or read book Alaska's Savage River written by Valerie Winans and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Denali National Park and Preserve is a story about wayfarers in the heart of Alaska— campground hosts who quickly become enchanted with the savage River Campground in Denali Park and Preserve, its history, its wildlife, and its guests to the campground from all over the world. The campground is near the location of the first tent camp in the park where visitors came by horse and later touring car from the railway station twelve miles away. it's the first place along the park road where Mt. Mckinley, the highest mountain on the North American continent, can be seen. The stories of the early visitors— their desires to see wildlife and the mountain—are much the same as those of current campers. The people who are passers-by of this place may leave a legacy or a footprint, but they all take with them memories of a very special place.

Arctic Wings

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Publisher : Braided River
ISBN 13 : 9780898869750
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Book Synopsis Arctic Wings by : Stephen Charles Brown

Download or read book Arctic Wings written by Stephen Charles Brown and published by Braided River. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred color images celebrating the birds that journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge each year are accompanied by essays by noted biologists and conservationists.

Grizzly Heart

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371026
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Grizzly Heart by : Charlie Russell

Download or read book Grizzly Heart written by Charlie Russell and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing first-hand account of living with bears, from the acclaimed author of The Spirit Bear. To many people, grizzlies are symbols of power and ferocity -- creatures to be feared and, too often, killed. But Charlie Russell, who has had a forty-year relationship with bears, holds the controversial belief that it is possible to live with and truly understand bears in the wild. And for five years now, Russell and his partner, artist and photographer Maureen Enns, have spent summers on the Kamchatka peninsula, located on the northeast coast of Russia, and home of the densest population of brown bears in the world. Grizzly Heart tells the remarkable story of how Russell and Enns have defied the preconceptions of wildlife officials and the general public by living unthreatened -- and respected -- among the grizzlies of Kamchatka. In an honest and immediate style, Russell tells of the trials and successes of their years in the field, from convincing Russian officials to allow them to study, to adopting three bear cubs left orphaned when their mother was killed by a hunter (and teaching these cubs how to survive in the wild), to raising environmental awareness through art. Through a combination of careful study and personal dedication, Russell and Enns are persuading people to reconsider the age-old image of the grizzly bear as a ferocious man-eater and perpetual threat. Through their actions, they demonstrate that it is possible to forge a mutually respectful relationship with these majestic giants, and provide compelling reasons for altering our culture. "We have been able to live beautifully with these animals, with no serious threat, because of what we've learned. Hopefully, sharing what we learn will help people -- and be a big help to our bears, too."

D.Gray-man, Vol. 20

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Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1421546795
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis D.Gray-man, Vol. 20 by : Katsura Hoshino

Download or read book D.Gray-man, Vol. 20 written by Katsura Hoshino and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen exorcist Allen Walker is given his first assignment, and his perilous mission takes him to southern Italy, where an Innocence has been located. Along with fellow exorcist Kanda, and Tom, a "finder"--one of a support group for exorcists--Allen must vanquish the akuma that covets the Innocence. -- VIZ Media

Boots, Bikes, and Bombers

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231737
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Boots, Bikes, and Bombers by : Ginny Wood

Download or read book Boots, Bikes, and Bombers written by Ginny Wood and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Washington in 1917, Ginny Hill Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service pilot in World War II and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to cofound Camp Denali, Alaska's first wilderness ecotourism lodge. This title presents an oral history of Ginny Hill Wood.

The Only Kayak

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493049410
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Only Kayak by : Kim Heacox

Download or read book The Only Kayak written by Kim Heacox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Classic! In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and overdevelopment. Braided through the larger story are tales of gold prospectors and the cabin they built sixty years ago; John Muir and his intrepid terrier, Stickeen; and a dynamic geology professor who teaches earth science "as if every day were a geological epoch." Nearly two million people come to Alaska every summer, some on large cruise ships, some in single kayaks--all in search of the last great wilderness, the Africa of America. It is exactly the America Heacox finds in this story of paradox, love, and loss.

Going Places

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 161069385X
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Going Places by : Robert Burgin

Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Grizzly Bear Family Book

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Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613033503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis Grizzly Bear Family Book by : Michio Hoshino

Download or read book Grizzly Bear Family Book written by Michio Hoshino and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michio Hoshino spent almost a year photographing bears in the Alaskan wilderness. In this personal book, he weaves facts about grizzly bears into a compelling narrative which he illustrates with beautiful color photographs.

Kafka on the Shore

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400079276
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Kafka on the Shore by : Haruki Murakami

Download or read book Kafka on the Shore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

D. Gray-Man

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Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781421506234
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis D. Gray-Man by : Katsura Hoshino

Download or read book D. Gray-Man written by Katsura Hoshino and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a fictional end of the 19th century England, the story revolves around a teenage boy named Allen Walker who is cursed with a cross mark on his hand that turns his arm into an enormous weapon, which he uses to hunt down and kill akumas. An akuma, generated by a 1,000-year-old phantom, is implanted into a human's soul during a moment of devastation and despair. The phantom uses the demons to then carry out his goal: destroy all humankind.

Punky Aloha

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780063079236
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (792 download)

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Book Synopsis Punky Aloha by : Shar Tuiasoa

Download or read book Punky Aloha written by Shar Tuiasoa and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Punky Aloha: a girl who uses the power of saying "aloha" to experience exciting and unexpected adventures! Punky loves to do a lot of things--except meeting new friends. She doesn't feel brave enough. So when her grandmother asks her to go out and grab butter for her famous banana bread, Punky hesitates. But with the help of her grandmother's magical sunglasses, and with a lot of aloha in her heart, Punky sets off on a BIG adventure for the very first time. Will she be able to get the butter for grandma? Punky Aloha is a Polynesian girl who carries her culture in her heart and in everything she does. Kids will love to follow this fun character all over the island of O'ahu.

Beauty Within the Beast

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ISBN 13 : 9781931643108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Beauty Within the Beast by : Stephen Stringham

Download or read book Beauty Within the Beast written by Stephen Stringham and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of excitement, adventure, and discovery, this story reveals a depth of connection between man and animal that has been lost to most of us. Stephen and Alatanna Stringham's duties included teaching their three furry charges about which plants they could eat, how to fish, and how to hunt. Dr. Stringham's biology background made him an ideal teacher of the foraging and social skills they would need live in a bear's world and, in the process, he learns how bears express fear, anger, appeasement, aggression, and much more.