Description: Treasures Of Alaska last Great American Experience National Geographic. This new look at Alaska as the destination for wilderness experience in America celebrates the many lives and unique landscapes that make up the vast and storied land. The book captures Alaska's splendor with an astonishing combination of prose and photographs-from mountain ranges glittering with glaciers to lush forests and wetlands teeming with wildlife to fjords exploding with the barks of seals. Visiting the places and people whose natures are true to the spirit of this still wild frontier, Rennicke and Melford follow a dogsled team up a frozen mountain river in search of an Alaskan Eden; hike along active volcanoes that brim and boil in the Aleutian Islands; summit Mount McKinley with a double-amputee bush pilot in a triumph of spirit and determination over the mountain that almost killed him; and journey back through Alaska's human history, to the times of the Gold Rush miners, totem pole carvers, and nomadic hunters who crossed the Bering Land Bridge and discovered a new land. From grizzlies to glaciers, gold fields to ice fields, fishing boats to northern lights, Treasures of Alaska uncovers the wild heart and the endless challenge that make Alaska a land of enduring beauty and undying dreams.
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Literary Movement: Naturalism
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Item Weight: 25 oz
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Book Title: National Geographic Treasures of Alaska
Publication Year: 2001
Topic: Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Special Interest / Adventure, Essays & Travelogues, Regional, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa)
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Travel
Author: Jeff Rennicke
Format: Hardcover
