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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America's most...
5) Alaska
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Distributed in the U.S. by Langenscheidt Publishers
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
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Dog Ear Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Take a glimpse back to a unique time, place, and people in the interior of Alaska where "normal" was attending school at -60 degrees and so was carrying a flashlight to the bus stop both in the morning and the afternoon. Join Niki as she reminisces about her childhood in Tok. There was no internet or cell phones: TV and radio consisted of only one station, but none of that mattered. What did matter was the people, the experiences, and the memories...
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English
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The story behind the best-selling book One Man's Wilderness and how author Sam Keith and Dick Proenneke met and forged an everlasting friendship. "Sam, you know right well you don't want to leave this country. Don't give up on it. Me and you got to figure something out. "After serving as a US Marine during World War II and attending college on the GI Bill, Sam Keith decided to seek adventure in Alaska as a laborer on the Adak Navy base. There he befriended...
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English
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"A revelatory memoir of the author's efforts to develop the strength and resilience to survive in the demanding landscapes of Norway and Alaska describes her physically exhausting survival endeavors on a ruthless arctic tundra marked by violent natural and human threats."--NoveList.
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English
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"The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches of Alaska. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds...
12) Two in the Far North: a conservation champion's story of life, love, and adventure in the wilderness
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English
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"A memoir of Margaret E. Murie, the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement," and her journey from finding love and life in the Alaskan wilderness."--
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English
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In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North...
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English
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The inspiration for The Last Alaskans-the eight-part documentary series on Animal PlanetHundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than four decades later, Heimo lives with his wife approximately two hundred miles from civilization-a sustainable, nomadic life bounded...
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Research/resources management report volume AR/CRR-2005-53
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Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
19) The frozen North
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Bob Swerer Productions
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A filmed account of the Alaskan back country, where Dick Proenneke lived alone, 40 air miles from the nearest settlement, for over 30 thirty years. Proenneke documented his cabin, the landscape, and wildlife, showing typical sights through one year.
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English
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"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...
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