Download or read book Alaska Adventure 55 Ways written by John Wolfe, Jr. and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features hiking, skiing, paddling, biking, and more New and substantially revised trips with all new full-color photos and maps throughout Emphasis on traverses and loop trips for both summer and winter, always with simpler and shorter options Originally published in 1972, the classic guide known as 55 Ways to the Wilderness in Southcentral Alaska has been fully updated and reinvented as Alaska Adventure 55 Ways. This robust reboot covers a diverse range of activities for year-round fun, from quick day trips to adventures that could extend to a week or longer, including canoe trails, wilderness cabins, easy summits, forest walks, cross-country ski routes, summer mountain biking and winter fat bike trails, wild skating, and more. John Wolfe Jr. and Rebecca Wolfe, a father-daughter team, describe activities spanning the broad swath of Southcentral Alaska, 300 miles north to south and 350 miles east to west. The guide features activities on the lakes and peaks of the Kenai Peninsula, the Anchorage front range, the Matanuska and Susitna Valleys, and the Copper River basin, taking in Chugach and Denali State Parks, Chugach National Forest, Kenai Fjords and Wrangell St. Elias National Parks, several wildlife refuges, and portions of the Iditarod National Historic Trail. With an emphasis on adventures regular people can enjoy and destinations that don’t require highly technical skills, expensive flights to remote locations, or demanding levels of athletic fitness, this guide appeals to all ages, with family-friendly shorter options and trip extensions adding up to more than a hundred "ways" to adventure.
Download or read book Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Wilderness written by Robert Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book for every man and woman who loves the wilderness. One who reads this volume walks with Bob Marshall on treacherous trails, climbs with him to the top of unnamed mountains, struggles with him to escape the swift rise of dangerous rivers, faces grizzly bears unarmed, feels the joy of being alone in an empty wilderness, and sees through a poet's eyes the great glories of the Alaskan mountains."--William O. Douglas "For all who love wild places and the feeling of wilderness exploration this book will be a treasure."--Sigurd F. Olson
Download or read book Alaska and Its Resources written by William Healey Dall and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced written by Thomas S. Litwin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the ship's route, the book addresses wilderness conservation biology and ecology, American history, natural history and anthropology, and travel and exploration."--Jacket.
Download or read book Spirits of the Water written by Steven C. Brown and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2000 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents almost 175 examples of the art produced by the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast.
Download or read book Travels in Alaska written by John Muir and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Alaska in the late nineteenth century and Muir's early adventures in an untamed land of glaciers and northern lights.
Download or read book The Accidental Explorer written by Sherry Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these acclaimed essays, Sherry Simpson recounts her experiences as an ordinary woman confronting the vast expanses of water and wilderness of her home state. Her adventures include a harrowing bear encounter and a near-death experience falling into a glacial river, but she also finds an Alaska of surpassing, almost supernatural beauty and power. These lyrical essays thoughtfully explore one woman's effort to map both a sense of place and a sense of self in a world at once comforting and unforgiving.
Download or read book The Adventurer s Son written by Roman Dial and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." —Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial’s extraordinary and widely acclaimed account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s disappearance in the jungles of Costa Rica. In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, Cody Roman Dial emailed his father: “I am not sure how long it will take me, but I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I’ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever.” They were the last words Dial received from his son. As soon as he realized Cody Roman’s return date had passed, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues—the authorities suspected murder—the desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about himself and his own role in the events. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth’s wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son’s fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment? Part detective story set in the most beautiful yet dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer’s Son emerges as a far deeper tale of discovery—a journey to understand the truth about those we love the most. The Adventurer’s Son includes fifty black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book To the Bright Edge of the World written by Eowyn Ivey and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller 2012, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century, sure to appeal to fans of A PLACE CALLED WINTER. *NOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017* 'A clever, ambitious novel' The Sunday Times 'Persuasive and vivid... Breathtaking' Guardian Winter 1885. Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester accepts the mission of a lifetime, to navigate Alaska's Wolverine River. It is a journey that promises to open up a land shrouded in mystery, but there's no telling what awaits Allen and his small band of men. Allen leaves behind his young wife, Sophie, newly pregnant with the child he had never expected to have. Sophie would have loved nothing more than to carve a path through the wilderness alongside Allen - what she does not anticipate is that their year apart will demand every ounce of courage of her that it does of her husband.
Download or read book On the Arctic Frontier written by Janet R. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eager to investigate rumors of land north of Alaska, Ernest deKoven Leffingwell and Ejnar Mikkelsen organized the 1906 Anglo American Polar Expedition. Despite extreme conditions, they determined the edge of the continental shelf--a significant geographic discovery. Leffingwell remained behind, and with substantial assistance from his Inupiat neighbors, the driven young geologist explored, surveyed and documented geography along Alaska¿s north coast and what is now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). On the North Slope of the Brooks Range, he pioneered research in ground ice (permafrost), observed birds, and collected wildlife specimens. His groundbreaking work still informs scientists and scholars.
Download or read book An Expedition to the Copper Tanana and Koyukuk Rivers in 1885 written by Henry Tureman Allen and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explorations in Alaska 1899 written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 55 Ways to the Wilderness in Southcentral Alaska written by Helen Nienhueser and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Rush Runaway written by Douglas DeVries and published by Jade RAM Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Rush Runaway is historical fiction, based upon an 1898 military expedition to cut a trail from the south central coast of Alaska to circle City on the Yukon River. The story is based upon the reports of Lt. Joseph Castner who led the advance party of trail cutter from Cook Inlet into the interior. Included in the book are maps of his route, and author's notes about Lt. Castner and the expedition.
Download or read book Gates of the Arctic National Park written by Joe Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip through some of the most remote, untouched and thrilling wilderness in the United States The Gates of the Arctic National park. In this book of stunning photographs and interesting histories and facts, Joe Wilkins shares the knowledge that he has accumulated through personal experience and adventures about this piece of this country's last frontier.
Download or read book True North in Alaska written by Richard B. Webb and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An adventurous Depression-era couple answered a recruiting ad for teachers in Alaska. Dick and Milly Webbs' lifelong Alaska exploration is chronicled in their letters and photos depicting Indian and Eskimo villages, gold miners, bush pilots, and life in 1937-1960s-era Alaska. Having a baby meant a 90-mile dogsled trip. Managing reindeer herds, hunting walrus and whales, and doctoring Natives were only part-time duties! Ready for "civilization," they managed a budding aviation business in Nome. Later, in Fairbanks, they became entrepreneurs and toured the world promoting Alaska. Shortly before he died, Dick reread his letters and revealed secrets he had omitted when writing them."--Amazon.com
