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Title: Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 0-312-26178-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (90 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Peter Jenkins has done it again!
Comment: If you've never read any of Peter Jenkins' books before, this would be a great place to start. Looking for Alaska is filled with the types of things you would expect from a book about Alaska--the bears, moose, glaciers, mountains, sled dogs, salmon, majestic scenery, whales--but this book is so much more than that. Like his previous books, this one is populated with remarkable stories of decent, hard-working people. Mr Jenkins has an extraordinary talent for revealing the heroic nature of ordinary people. These characters are familiar to most of us. We recognize our friends, our families, ourselves in them, and because they are cast in the positive light they deserve, we come away with a warm feeling. When so much of what we read and hear is focused on what's wrong with America (and with you and me by extension), it's nice to occassionally see someone concentrate on the positive. In keeping with his tradition, Mr Jenkins has illustrated Looking for Alaska with excellent color and black and white photographs, a practice that has become increasingly rare. Mr Jenkins' daughter, Rebekah, contributed a couple of segments that are downright poetic. I can't say enough about Looking for Alaska. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: This guy nails Alaska.
Comment: Several years ago my boyfriend of the time, while I was a student at University of Michigan, told me that the book that inspired him to travel was A WALK ACROSS AMERICA.I didn't remember the writers name, I did remember his dogs name, Cooper, because it was the same as my brothers. I never read it, too much school work.
But now I have read a Peter Jenkins book about the place I love more than any other place, ALASKA. I have worked here, on and off, for eight years, and LOOKING FOR ALASKA, thrills me with simple, yet often poetic prose. Peter Jenkins is a master story teller. His cast of characters is onen that could only exist up here, they ring very true. Peter paints the winter mountains pink AND orange, as only one who has been in this place in the winter can.
The sections about his time on the ice with the Eskimo whalers; his journeys with his twenty year old daughter Rebekah,(and by the way her writing in this book is often excellent); his portrait of the retired sled dog Kitty (which brought tears to my eyes, as did his kayak trip with his daughter); the story about mouse trading; the Haida princess, Tina; and the two woman of Unalakleet, the Eskimo and the former Debutante are my favorites in a tour de force on ALASKA. Not since McPhee's COMING INTO THE COUNTRY have I read a book that moved me so about my only Frontier.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Looking For Alaska" just makes you want to go there!
Comment: While half-way through reading "Looking for Alaska", I was on my way there in the summer of 2003. This superbly written story made a major difference in how how I viewed everything about this fantastic place and the wonderful diversity of Alaska's people. Peter Jenkins masterfully weaves a very personal story of his travels and adventures throughout the vast reaches of the state. He shares the remarkable encounters with nature as well as many heartwarming stories of people from all walks of Alaskan life; from Hydaburg to Barrow and all across the trace of the fabled Iditarod. He brings it all to life in a compelling read that is informative to would be travelers coupled with some hair razing stories and spiced with humor in just the right spots. Jenkins continually highlights the unmatched beauty and spirit of our 50th State. As a Marine Officer I had the good fortune of seeing some amazing regions of this planet, but nothing has struck me like my brief experience in Alaska. Peter Jenkins captures it all in "Looking for Alaska". Throughout, he shares many encouraging lessons about following one's heart and not giving up on our dreams. Included are some wonderful passages regarding his family relatinships laced with heartwarming experiences with his daughter Rebeka during their travels. So taken by this book, I am now listening to the Audio version. An unforgetable read for old and young alike. Don't miss it.
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Title: Along the Edge of America by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 0395877377 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Walk Across America, A by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 006095955X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2 by Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins ISBN: 0688006663 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: November, 1981 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Across China by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 0449214567 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: 12 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke ISBN: 0882405136 Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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