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The Alaska Milepost 2010 Travel Planner 62nd Edition
A valued guidebook for travelers in the north, the Milepost is a well known and respected resource for visitors to Alaska, the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. 2009 is significant for Alaska, admitted into the Union on January 3, 1959; this year marks its 50th anniversary of statehood.
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Fast & Cold – A Guide to Alaska Whitewater
My friend Andy Embick has been gone now for a few years and he left behind many memories. As an avid kayaker and boater, a tangible remembrance for me is his book Fast & Cold – A Guide to Alaska Whitewater. While the book is out of print, anyone interested in kayaking or rafting Alaskan [...]
Also posted in Outdoor Recreation, Rivers Tagged Alaska Whitewater, Alaskan Rivers, River Running, Rivers Comments closed
Arctic Discoveries: Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North
Based on his experiences in Alaska and the circumpolar north reaching back to the early 1960′s, John Bockstoce has arranged many of his photographs into chronological themes that detail Alaska, the North Pacific, Canadian Arctic, and North Atlantic. Arctic Discoveries presents these photographic themes based on Bockstoce’s travels working as a historian and archaeologist in [...]
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A Woman who went to Alaska
A Women who went to Alaska details two astonishing trips made by May Kellogg Sullivan to the gold fields of the Yukon and Alaska Territories in the 1900′s. A true survivor, Sullivan stakes mining claims, works at menial jobs and experiences life with native people of the region. The very presence of women in the [...]
Also posted in Historical Tagged A Woman who went to Alaska, Gold Rush Women, Klondike Gold Rush, May Kellogg Sullivan, White Pass and Yukon Route, Yukon River Comments closed
John Muir Comes to Alaska
Naturalist John Muir first explored Alaska during a trip to the Island of Wrangell on July 14, 1879. Muir wasn’t impressed, saying “the most inhospitable place at first sight I had ever seen.
Also posted in Historical, Natural History, Rivers Tagged Glenora, Great Glacier, John Muir, Samuel Hall Young, Stickeen, Stikine, Travels in Alaska, Wrangell Comments closed
The Total Outdoorsman Manual: Learn to hunt, fish, and camp like an expert
“Few of us have time to waste…We don’t think you approach the outdoors with half-hearted enthusiasm…Which is why you hold in your line-cut, wood-singed, blood-stained, an calloused hands a guide to getting you to the next level of outdoorsmanship.”
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Sharing Our Pathways: Native Perspectives on Education in Alaska
“The modern schools are not teaching students how to live a life that feels right. Rather, the schools are giving a lot of information to the students without also showing them how they can transfer the information into useful knowledge for making a living…”
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