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Title: The Reader's Companion to Alaska by Alan Ryan ISBN: 0-15-600368-6 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Really whets your appetite
Comment: The first couple of stories are the least fun. After that, it's a great compilation. The five-page diary of V. Swanson is worth the price of the book - and as affecting as any Robert Service poem. The compilation is good enough that I have tried to find some of the excerpted books, and will look for more of them. (John Haines's book was pretty good. A co-worker enjoyed it, too.) The acknowledgments at the end are useful.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Reader's Companion to Alaska
Comment: This is a marvelous collection of essays written about life and travel in Alaska during the past 100 years. It has lots of well-known contributors: John McPhee, Ann Morrow Lindburgh, John Muir, Charles Kuralt, et al. But almost every piece, even from the most obscure writer, had me mesmerized. Perhaps the most haunting tale was a reprint of the diary entries from a man known only as "V. Swanson," who perished in a cabin in the wilderness in 1917.
I was fascinated by the stories of daredevils doing unbelievably brave and crazy things: climbing through ice caves buried within glaciers where the climbers literally had to inhale in order to squeeze through, knowing a shift in the ice could kill them all at any moment...climbing the face of Denali in winter, losing toes to frostbite...coming face to face with a grizzly who smashed in the window of a tiny cabin. Being decidedly NOT a daredevil myself, I would get most of the way through each of these stories scratching my head as to the motivation of these people. Generally, by the end of each story, I understood what made them tick. Reading these essays has made me feel life in Suburbia is just a little too boring, too timid, too soft.
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Title: Coming into the Country by John McPhee ISBN: 0374522871 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 0312261780 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Travels in Alaska by John Muir ISBN: 0395901480 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Nature of Southeast Alaska: A Guide to Plants, Animals, and Habitats by Rita M. O'Clair, Robert H. Armstrong, Richard Carstensen ISBN: 0882404881 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Alaska (Alaska, 7th Ed) by Jim Dufresne, Paige R. Penland, Don Root, Lonely Planet ISBN: 1740590910 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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