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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Some Books about Alaska 1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476863
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 037576142X
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Alaska written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2002-11-12 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Alaska’s fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska’s story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people. Praise for Alaska “Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes. . . . Alaska takes the reader on a journey through one of the bleakest, richest, most foreboding, and highly inviting territories in our Republic, if not the world. . . . The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.”—Boston Herald “Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”—The New York Times
Author : John Strohmeyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888125207
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Extreme Conditions written by John Strohmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing has changed Alaska as swiftly or as traumatically as the discovery of oil. In Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Strohmeyer writes a riveting account of how it all happened. From the icy North waters, Strohmeyer takes the reader to the inside world of post-oil Alaska and shows what tumultuous changes--for good and bad--this gusher of money and influx of people have had upon America's last great frontier. The enduring relevance of this work makes it indispensable reading in understanding the current tensions among environmentalists, businesses, and Natives that characterize Alaska today."--Back Cover.
Author : Norman Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886352223
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (522 download)
Download or read book 10,000 Days in Alaska Book Two: 1990-1997 written by Norman Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their log cabin overlooking Scoter Lake at Nelchina, to Glennallen, Anchorage, Wasilla, Copper Center, Tok, Palmer, Fairbanks, Denali, Matanuska, Susitna, Valdez, Cordova and other arctic communities, Norman Wilkins recorded daily journal entries throughout the 25+ years he and his wife Sylvia spent carving out a life on the Alaskan tundra. This is book two of a three-volume documentary journal. To get a copy of Book One, go to https: //www.createspace.com/3451108. Book Three is at https: //www.createspace.com/345112
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520224674
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Wildest Alaska written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling and eerie memoir tells of his odyssey through recorded history and eventually to the bay iteslf, as he explores the dark and unyielding side of nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Hannah Breece
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307490548
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska written by Hannah Breece and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century. "An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life."--The New York Times
Author : Alaska. Governor (1994-2002 : Knowles)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (418 download)
Download or read book State of the State, State of the Budget, 1997 written by Alaska. Governor (1994-2002 : Knowles) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Haigh
Publisher : Ridgetop Press
ISBN 13 : 9780962753022
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Catch and Release written by Jane Haigh and published by Ridgetop Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen O'Leary Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566927512
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Alaska Crime Perspective, 1997 written by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Mergler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882408149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Last New Land written by Wayne Mergler and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mergler has scoured Alaska's literary tradition for the best writing the state has to offer. "The Last New Land" gathers a rich and comprehensive sampling of fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the Northland.
Author : Alaska. Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Alaska Navigator written by Alaska. Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and published by . This book was released on 1997* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen O'Leary Morgan
Publisher : Morgan Quitno Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781566927017
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Alaska Health Care Perspective 1997 written by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and published by Morgan Quitno Corporation. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Lord
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1559635258
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Fishcamp written by Nancy Lord and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Summers, I live at fishcamp. June through August, Mondays and Fridays, my partner and I catch and sell salmon that pass our beach on their way to spawning streams. The rest of the week, and parts of May and September, Ken and I mend nets, comb the rocky shoreline for useful poles and cottonwood bark, do a thousand camp chores and projects. We live quite happily in a tiny cabin at the top of the beach." --from Fishcamp For the past eighteen summers, Nancy Lord and her partner Ken have made a living, and made a life, fishing for salmon off the west side of Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska. In Fishcamp, Lord provides a nuanced and engrossing portrait of their days and months in camp at the inlet. Beginning with their arrival by plane on a freshly thawed lake, she describes their joys and tribulations as spring gives way to summer and the long months of summer unfold. With poetic cadence and magical tone, Lord draws the reader into life at camp, sharing experiences that range from the mundane to the sublime: the mending of nets; the muscle-wrenching labor of the catch; the exquisite pleasure of an improvised hot-tub; the often unnoticed bounty of the inlet's flora and fauna. Interwoven throughout the descriptions of quotidian adventure are threads of the deeper history of the region -- stories and legends of the native Dena'ina; anecdotes about past and current inlet residents; discussions of the lives of their neighbors, both human and animal, who, like them, live with fish. Fishcamp is Nancy Lord's eloquent paean to the place she calls home. In clear and richly textured prose, she captures the simple beauty of a life lived with nature, "a part" rather than "apart." As Lord explains, she shows us in Fishcamp "something about what even one place and its infinitely varied life contributes to the connections among us all and to the wholes we call 'world' and 'culture.'...Wherever our places are and whatever we do in them, perhaps we might all begin to pay more attention to the little and big things that do indeed connect in profound ways to all the rest, miles and eons and cultures apart." Fishcamp is a remarkable combination of personal, cultural, and natural history from what will surely be recognized as one of the most talented new voices of our time.
Author : United States. Forest Service. Alaska Region
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Alaska Region written by United States. Forest Service. Alaska Region and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Cochrane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780943712123
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Between Two Rivers written by Marjorie Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1983-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the community of Chugiak-Eagle River in Southwest Alaska.
Author : Carol Crane
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 158536696X
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)
Download or read book L Is for Last Frontier written by Carol Crane and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrivaled by any other state for sheer size, Alaska is a land of mystery and wonder to many Americans. Bordered by water on three sides, it remains a remote and last frontier...until now. L is for Last Frontier: an alphabet book written by Carol Crane, takes readers on an informative adventure through the "land of the midnight sun." Lecturer and book reviewer Carol Crane was recently described as "A walking, talking bibliography of children's books." Her twenty-five years in children's literature supply the essential experience to bring Alaska's vast wildlife and culture to children. Alaska's sheer size lends to its diversity, but Carol Crane employs a two-tiered approach and produces a seamless sampling of the state's culture and wildlife. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a rhyme for younger readers: T is for Tundra, a treeless arctic plain. Short warm summers, in winter, a frozen terrain. On the same page, older students can read the sidebar text to gain a richer understanding of the same topic. About the Author: Carol Crane advocates education through reading. She travels extensively and speaks at state reading conventions across the United States. Her thematic approach to learning has been widely accepted and successfully used by many reading teachers. Eight years ago, she founded "Bed, Breakfast and Books," a summer institute for teachers and media specialists across the country. L is for Last Frontier is Carol's 4th book with Sleeping Bear Press. She lives with her husband, Conrad, in Bradenton, Florida. About the Illustrator: Renowned wildlife artist Michael Monroe was the winner of the 1997 Michigan Duck Stamp award.
