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The reader's companion to Alaska / edited by Alan Ryan.
LIBRA - Special F910.5 .R43 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Alaska--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- Alaska.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Alaska--Anecdotes.
- Alaska--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 395 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, [1997]
- Summary:
- A compilation of writings, many of them first-person accounts, about impressions of Alaska, arranged geographically. The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awe-struck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly's footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the "cruise from hell; " and more.
- Notes:
- "A Harvest original."
- ISBN:
- 0156003686
- 9780156003681
- OCLC:
- 35762751
- Online:
- Publisher description
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