Author: Sam Wright
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816517954
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
On a slope above a mountain lake in AlaskaÕs Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and named it KoviashuvikÑan Eskimo word meaning "living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness." SamÕs account of the twenty years they spent there is both a tale of wilderness survival and an inspiring meditation on the natural world and humanityÕs relationship to it.
Koviashuvik
Author: Sam Wright
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816517954
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
On a slope above a mountain lake in AlaskaÕs Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and named it KoviashuvikÑan Eskimo word meaning "living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness." SamÕs account of the twenty years they spent there is both a tale of wilderness survival and an inspiring meditation on the natural world and humanityÕs relationship to it.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816517954
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
On a slope above a mountain lake in AlaskaÕs Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and named it KoviashuvikÑan Eskimo word meaning "living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness." SamÕs account of the twenty years they spent there is both a tale of wilderness survival and an inspiring meditation on the natural world and humanityÕs relationship to it.
The World
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Four Seasons North
Author: Billie Wright
Publisher: Random House (NY)
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Random House (NY)
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Bloomsbury Review
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Has also occasional unnumbered supplements
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Has also occasional unnumbered supplements
Gower Federal Service
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Alaska's Brooks Range
Author: John M. Kauffmann
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898863475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A richly drawn, in-depth profile of one of the world's last unspoiled wildernesses.
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898863475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A richly drawn, in-depth profile of one of the world's last unspoiled wildernesses.
Alaska's Brooks Range
Author: John Kauffmann
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594858292
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
* Explores both geologic and human history of the region * Includes a sampling of literature inspired by the Brooks Range * Examines past, present, and future conservation efforts in this extraordinary place Not just the ultimate mountains for their northernmost location on the North American continent, the Brooks Range also is one of the world's last, great, unspoiled wildernesses. A land of environmental and cultural extremes, its impressions on those who visit or reside there is as far-ranging as humankind's effect on the Range itself. Austere, mystical, and stunningly beautiful, the psychic and corpreal influence of the region is inescapable. Alaska's Brooks Range: The Ultimate Mountains looks at the many facets that make this region so provocative and so worthy of our strongest preservation efforts. It explores the geologic origins of some of the most desolate beauty on earth; the native inhabitants-both man and animal-whose age-old methods of survival have been altered by the winds from the lower 48; and the human history, from the early British military explorers to gold panners to the geographers who first mapped the Arctic wilderness. The story of Bob Marshall traces his influence as the father of the Arctic conservation movement, and Range Writings offers a sampling of literature inspired by the Brooks Range experience. Finally, this book takes a hard look at past, present, and proposed conservation efforts in the Brooks Range, because there is much more at stake than land and wildlife in this last frontier. The future of humankind is here, where the rarity of existence in pristine country is an everyday reality, where we can learn how best to fit in without destroying the scheme of life so exquisitely evolved on this planet. Alaska's Brooks Range is an affectionate portrait of an untamed territory-a land that challenges the limits of its natural inhabitants and those of human spirit and providence.
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594858292
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
* Explores both geologic and human history of the region * Includes a sampling of literature inspired by the Brooks Range * Examines past, present, and future conservation efforts in this extraordinary place Not just the ultimate mountains for their northernmost location on the North American continent, the Brooks Range also is one of the world's last, great, unspoiled wildernesses. A land of environmental and cultural extremes, its impressions on those who visit or reside there is as far-ranging as humankind's effect on the Range itself. Austere, mystical, and stunningly beautiful, the psychic and corpreal influence of the region is inescapable. Alaska's Brooks Range: The Ultimate Mountains looks at the many facets that make this region so provocative and so worthy of our strongest preservation efforts. It explores the geologic origins of some of the most desolate beauty on earth; the native inhabitants-both man and animal-whose age-old methods of survival have been altered by the winds from the lower 48; and the human history, from the early British military explorers to gold panners to the geographers who first mapped the Arctic wilderness. The story of Bob Marshall traces his influence as the father of the Arctic conservation movement, and Range Writings offers a sampling of literature inspired by the Brooks Range experience. Finally, this book takes a hard look at past, present, and proposed conservation efforts in the Brooks Range, because there is much more at stake than land and wildlife in this last frontier. The future of humankind is here, where the rarity of existence in pristine country is an everyday reality, where we can learn how best to fit in without destroying the scheme of life so exquisitely evolved on this planet. Alaska's Brooks Range is an affectionate portrait of an untamed territory-a land that challenges the limits of its natural inhabitants and those of human spirit and providence.
Walden on Wheels
Author: Ken Ilgunas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054402883X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.
McCall's
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1590
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1590
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The Living Wilderness
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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