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Wildest Alaska : journeys of great peril in Lituya Bay / Philip L. Fradkin.
LIBRA F912.L57 F73 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fradkin, Philip L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence.
- History.
- Natural disasters.
- Natural history.
- Lituya Bay Region (Alaska)--History.
- Lituya Bay Region (Alaska).
- Natural history--Alaska--Lituya Bay Region.
- Natural disasters--Alaska--Lituya Bay Region--History.
- Violence--Alaska--Lituya Bay Region--History.
- Fradkin, Philip L--Travel--Alaska--Lituya Bay Region.
- Fradkin, Philip L.
- Travel.
- Alaska.
- Alaska--Lituya Bay Region.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- This compelling and eerie memoir tells of Fradkin's odyssey through recorded human history and Lituya Bay in Alaska, as he explores the dark and unyielding side of nature. This story resonates with echoes of Melville, Poe, and Conrad as it weaves together the human and natural histories of a beautiful and wild place. Photos.
- Contents:
- I. Beginnings 1
- II. The Place 8
- III. The Tlingits 16
- IV. The French 29
- V. The Russians 66
- VI. The Americans 75
- VII. The Wave 114
- VIII. The Present 131
- IX. Tomales Bay 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520224671
- OCLC:
- 45466169
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