Alaskan Travels: Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure

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Alaskan Travels: Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure

Thirty years ago, celebrated American writer Edward Hoagland, in his early fifties and already with a dozen acclaimed books under his belt, had a choice: a midlife crisis or a midlife adventure. He chose the adventure.Â
Pencil and notebook at the ready, Hoagland set out to explore and write about one of the last truly wild territories remaining on the face of the earth: Alaska. From the Arctic Ocean to the Kenai Peninsula, the backstreet bars of Anchorage to the Yukon River, Hoagland traveled the â€œrealâ€ Alaska from top to bottom. Here he documents not only the flora and fauna of Americaâ€™s last frontier, but also the extraordinary people living on the fringe. On his journey he chronicles the lives of an astonishing and unforgettable array of prospectors, trappers, millionaire freebooters, drifters, oilmen, Eskimos, Indians, and a remarkably kind and capable frontier nurse named Linda. In his foreword, novelist Howard Frank Mosher describes Edward Hoaglandâ€™s memoir as â€œthe best book ever written about Americaâ€™s last best place.â€Â

In the tradition of Twainâ€™s Life on the Mississippi and Jonathan Rabinâ€™s Old Glory, with a beautiful love story at its heart, this is an American masterpiece from a writer hailed by the Washington Post as â€œthe Thoreau of our times.â€
Country USA
Brand Arcade
Manufacturer Arcade Publishing
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781611455038.00
EANs 9781611455038
ReleaseDate 2012-04-01

Country	USA
Brand	Arcade
Manufacturer	Arcade Publishing
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781611455038.00
EANs	9781611455038
ReleaseDate	2012-04-01

Alaskan Travels: Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure

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