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One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country". Like all of McPhee's books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is ...
Pages in category "Books about Alaska" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alaska 1741–1953;
The Alaska Gold Rush is a 1972 non-fiction book by David B. Wharton about the Nome and Fairbanks gold rushes. It was published by Indiana University Press.
Jul. 15—Two Alaska Native authors will have their works featured at the 2023 National Book Festival as part of the Great Reads from Great Places program. Lily H. Tuzroyluke's "Sivulliq: Ancestor ...
The Milepost is packaged and distributed like a book (2008 edition: ISBN 978-189215431-6), but like the Yellow Pages it includes paid advertising. [2] The original 1949 edition was a mere 72 pages, by 2014 it had expanded to 752 pages, detailing every place a traveler might eat, sleep, or just pull off the road for a moment on all of the highways of northwestern North America.
It was first published in 1980. The book is about McGinniss' travels through Alaska for a year. [1] The book became a bestseller. [2] The Los Angeles Times called it a "vivid memoir." [3] McGinniss returned to the subject of Alaska in 2009 to write a biography about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah ...
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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey is a book, first published in 1973, by Sam Keith, based on the journals and photography of Richard Proenneke who, in 1968, retreated to the wilderness of Twin Lakes in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska to build a home for himself and live alone in the wilderness. Proenneke says he turned his back on ...