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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A thorough account of the events as reportedBy Douglas ButlerThe most detailed record of Leslie's Retreat I have found. It tells the conflicting stories of the first hand accounts and makes it clear we may never know precisely what happened. To me it is the most interesting battle of the war...and no one even died!5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Unfairly ForgottenBy Michael MeoThe first armed conflict of the American Revolution took place at the North Bridge of Salem; Massachusetts; in February; 1775; Mr Hoffer reviews the sources for our present-day understanding and presents the first full; documented history of the event. More significantly by far; he employs the introduction of this unfairly forgotten episode into the pre-Revolutionary narrative to explain some significant points about the effect the outcome had upon the next armed conflict; the one that gets all the credit; the Gunpowder Raid upon Lexington and Concord the following April.You will know more about the outbreak of the Revolutionary War; not only in fact but in theory.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. He loved added this to his already growing library of Historical ...By ReaderBought this for my husband that is in the process of writing a Historical Fiction. It gives so much information and accurate accounts. He loved added this to his already growing library of Historical Research materials.
