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Adams, Mark, 1967- -- Travel.
Alaska -- Description and travel.
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Adams, Mark, 1967- -- Travel.
Alaska -- Description and travel.
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Tip of the iceberg :
my
3,000 mile
journey
around
wild
Alaska
, the
last
great
American
frontier
/ Mark Adams.
by
Adams, Mark, 1967-
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2018.
Call #:
LP 917.9804 A215t
Subjects
Adams, Mark, 1967- -- Travel.
Alaska
-- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781432855338
1432855336
Alternate title:
My
three
thousand-mile
journey
around
wild
Alaska
, the
last
great
American
frontier
Description:
499 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-495).
Summary:
"In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of
Alaska
: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later,
Alaska
is still America's most sublime wilderness, both the lure that draws a million tourists annually on Inside Passage cruises and a natural resources larder waiting to be raided. As ever, it remains a magnet for weirdos and dreamers. Armed with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito net, Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition. Using the state's intricate public ferry system, the
Alaska
Marine Highway System, Adams travels
three
thousand miles, following the George W. Elder's itinerary north through Wrangell, Juneau, and Glacier Bay, then continuing west into the colder and stranger regions of the Aleutians and the Arctic Circle. Along the way, he encounters dozens of unusual characters (and a couple of very hungry bears) and investigates how lessons learned in 1899 might relate to
Alaska
's current struggles in adapting to the pressures of a changing climate and world."--From publisher.
Genre:
Travel writing.
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