Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska Native arts
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Alaska Treasure Shop
Author: Vikings, Ruins, and Buried Treasure
Author: Matt SnaderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578758749
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Matt Snader visits some controversial archaeological sites, some of which are attributed to Vikings.
Treasures of Alaska
Author: Jeff RennickePublisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN: 9781426205873
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features the natural landscapes of Alaska, and profiles the people who live, work, and play there according to the laws of nature.
Aunt Phil's Trunk
Author: Laurel, BillPublisher: Publication Consultants
ISBN: 1940479029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five features dozens of short stories and hundreds of historical photographs that share the history of Alaska from 1960 to 1984. This fifth book in the Alaska history series highlights the first 25 years of statehood when the optimistic citizens of the Great Land created a government from scratch in just a few years and dealt with many challenges. Aunt Phil s Trunk Volume Five shares firsthand accounts of survivors who experienced the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and the devastating tsunamis that followed that 9.2 temblor. It also features stories about the discovery of black gold on the North Slope in the late 1960s, and how Alaska s Native people fought for their land and won the largest settlement ever granted Native Americans. That agreement cleared the way for oil companies to build an 800-mile pipeline through some of the most rugged and remote country in the world during the 1970s.
Where to Prospect for Gold in Alaska Without Getting Shot!
Author: Ron WendtPublisher:
ISBN: 9781886574120
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guide reveals where you can pan, dredge, detect, or sluice for gold legally, and without hassle.
Kayaks of Alaska
Author: Harvey Daniel GoldenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978722128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Walking Home
Author: Lynn SchoolerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408814838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The stirring memoir of one man's harrowing solo adventure in the Alaskan wilderness, and his discoveries about the home he leaves behind. 'This is the best wilderness narrative I've read for a long time. The tension between nature at its most exquisite and most lethal makes this the story of our times. A remarkable book' Nicholas Crane, TV presenter and author of Coast 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 labouring 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, travelling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travellers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others. In Walking Home Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, and investigates, with elegance and soul, what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.
Alaskan Traveltrails
Author: Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Alaska Then and Now
Author: Sonya SenkowskyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781592237999
Category : Anchorage (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catch the latest cool compilation of Alaska's enchanting history in pictures. Alaska Then & Now tours Alaska as it was over a century ago and is today.America's largest state is home of some of the world's best hiking, camping, fishing and kayaking. Through a series of gold, fur, timber, fishing and oil booms, author Rosemary Lord demonstrates the before-and-after effects of this state's extraordinary evolution.