Alaska: A History, Paperback

Reducere. From Seward to Fairbanks, this book describes the route of the Alaska Railroad past and present, plus the sights and wildlife that have fascinated ...

Alaska Native Elder and author Robert Rude reviews the history of Alaska Natives from the time they encountered Russian traders in 1792 to the pres...

Reducere. The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuab...

Reducere. Ghostly footsteps and flickering lights, a silhouette in the window of an abandoned building, a restless presence at the scene of a sunken ship, sp...

Reducere. This newly revised edition includes up-to-date information and historical photographs on everything you need to know about the Last Frontier, all i...

Reducere. Do you want to learn more about Alaska? Sure, you know it's cold and dark for a large portion of the year, but what else do you really know about t...

Reducere. DescriptionDo you want to learn more about Alaska? Sure, you know it's cold and dark for a large portion of the year, but what else do you really k...

Reducere. More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. Hi...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the campaign written by soldiers on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further r...

This story is about a young man's dreams of moving to Alaska with the thoughts of moving for a year even if he had to eat bark. Forty-two years lat...

Reducere. DescriptionOn March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsi...

Reducere. Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska's first peoples are ofte...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is it about Alaska that can make a young journalist from the East Coast abandon his career and become a bush pilot? Bruder's fascin...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

Reducere. DescriptionAudrey Purkeypile was born in northern Alaska in 1927 during a remarkable era of Alaskan history. Surrounded by the wondrous beauty of u...

Reducere. All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Nor...

Reducere. DescriptionThe intriguing theory of a land bridge linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated si...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of co...

Reducere. DescriptionNew with Index A treasure trove of historical goodness Richly assembled with hundreds of rare historical photographs and entertaining sh...

Reducere. In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the ...

Reducere. In this history of life in an isolated ghost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds a deeply American saga of renunciation and renewal....

Reducere. This is a story about 1, 500 miles of gravel road. Quickly built by the U.S. Army over an unmapped stretch of the Canadian Rockies in the tense aft...

Reducere. A perennial best seller that's been in print for over 50 years, Alaska Sourdough--part valuable historical reference and part kitschy souvenir--now...

Reducere. This definitive work, a crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia Black, presents a comprehensive story of the Russi...

Reducere. On December 7, 1941 the United States suddenly found itself at war with the Empire of Japan. Alaska's Aleutian Island chain led through the North P...

Reducere. DescriptionInternational #1 Amazon Bestseller in SEVEN Categories in the US and CA, including Weather, Commercial Aviation, Piloting & Flight Instr...

Reducere. Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish ...

John Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wildernes...

Contributor(s): Author: May NakamuraIllustrator: Rachel SansonDip a toe, paw, or fin into history with this fact-tastic Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part...

Reducere. A half century ago, Inupiat Eskimo Paul Green was dismayed by a writer who arrived in his village, stayed briefly, then flew home to print nonsense...

Reducere. More than 150 stunning images, featuring the "Big Five" caribou, Dall sheep, grizzly, moose, and wolf Both an educational overview and a tourist-or...

Bears, birds, totems, cruising amidst the glaciers, camping in the wilderness... Alaska can still astonish the most jaded of travellers. Insight Gu...

Reducere. Sitka Snow chronicles the continuing adventures of Police Chief Brady Snow, who works in the bush of wild Alaska, where human trafficking, bootlegg...

Reducere. DescriptionHigh adventure, men vs. the wilderness, history and the gold rushes of the North spring to life in this lost gold mine story set in Sout...

"Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of t...

Reducere. Alex Hills traveled Alaska by bush plane and snow machine, braving extreme weather and rough terrain to bring telephone service to small villages a...

Reducere. Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collected here for the first time are stories from the com...

Reducere. Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted...

Reducere. DescriptionSee the times as they were, the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus boyhood to his di...

Reducere. As the Summer of Love comes to an end, 15-year-old Ida Petrovich waits for a father who never comes home. While commercial fishing in Alaska, he is...

Reducere. Across the Shaman's River is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fa...

Reducere. A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the "metropolis" of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood o...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative abo...

Reducere. Mattie "Tootsie" Crosby arrived in Alaska at a time when African American women were viewed as a mere novelty by white people and brown-skinned Nat...

DescriptionNew with Index Alaska statehood - a historic 25 years This fifth book in the Aunt Phil's Trunk Alaska history series highlights the firs...

Reducere. Juneau, Alaska is an integral part of the United States, yet offers up the feeling that's it's a world away from the Lower 48. Juneau holds the uni...

Reducere. It was late November--one of the coldest periods to be on a ship near Alaska. The Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis had run aground during a severe storm a...

This is a story about the early military history of Alaska, about a small nondescript Island hidden among the labyrinth of islands, fiords, and mou...

Reducere. The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy...

Reducere. Acorn cakes, bannock, milkweed soup and fried yucca petals are just a few of the dozens of recipes in this book. These are recipes collected from F...

Reducere. From a remote cabin in the rugged rainforest of the Alaskan wilderness, where the untamed landscape tumbles into the ocean, a remarkable yellow Lab...

Reducere. Jack Jefford saw his first plane in 1916 at the age of six and he was hooked. By 1937 he was flying planes in Nome, Alaska and in three short years...

In this first in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt, become...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In the vast sagebrush desert of Southern Idaho, Minidoka War Relocation Center had a short-lived and painful existence. The wartime operation incar...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Texas: A Captivat...

Reducere. DescriptionBristol Bay in Southwest Alaska is one of the great commercial fisheries on earth. More than half of the world's sockeye salmon return t...

Reducere. Countless Michiganian women performed extraordinary acts that challenged and improved the world. Madame Marie-Therese Cadillac served as the medici...

Reducere. The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. A...

Reducere. As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco...

Reducere. A quirky and reverent romp through nature with an irreverently funny guide In these wry and explosively funny essays, nature obsessive Charles Hood...

Reducere. In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument wi...

Acclaimed travel writer Anthony Lambert presents his selection of train journeys with real character, sublime scenery, a sense of history, a well-a...

Reducere. DescriptionJOANN ROBERTSON'S GRANDFATHER MOVED TO THE YUKON in 1897 to make his fortune. He did not succeed at that, but he did fall in love with t...

Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award``A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation.`` -Wall Stre...

A distant owl's mournful hoot echoes through a frozen forest. A shadow swoops across the tundra; lemmings and voles scurry beneath the foliage as t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dennis Waller"The Tlingit and the Haida don't have myths; they are stories about our history" The Raven is as much a parado...

DescriptionWilliam Burns is best known as 'America's Sherlock Holmes' and became director at the Bureau of Investigation, to be immediately followe...

Reducere. Bristol Bay Remembers: The Great Flu of 1919 tells the story, through first-hand accounts and photographs, of the Spanish Flu Pandemic that struck ...

DescriptionAleutians 1942-43 is the full story of the forgotten battle to liberate American soil from the Japanese during World War II.It is often ...