Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Compilation of Narratives of Exploration in Alaska
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: AMS Press
ISBN: 9780404203238
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher: AMS Press
ISBN: 9780404203238
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Yukon
Author: Melody Webb
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls "the technological frontier." Colorful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land "remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions." ø
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls "the technological frontier." Colorful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries. Successive waves of traders, trappers, miners, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes, but the immense land "remains virtually untouched by permanent intrusions." ø
Bulletin - Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations
Author: Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations (U.S.)
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Technical Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Great Quake
Author: Henry Fountain
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1101904089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake—the second most powerful in world history—struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shaking, followed by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern half of the state and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics. In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain combines history and science to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people—and on science.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1101904089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake—the second most powerful in world history—struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shaking, followed by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern half of the state and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics. In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain combines history and science to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people—and on science.