Chasing Alaska : a portrait of the last frontier then and now
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Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2013].
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Status
Chetco Community Public Library - Adult/General - Nonfiction
917.98 BERNARD
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Published
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2013].
Format
Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-277).
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"Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C.B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. It turned out that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C.B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals as guides, C.B. threw himself into the state once known as Seward's Folly, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the pristine landscape. He began to form a landscape view of the place that had lured him and "Uncle Joe," both men anchored beneath the Northern Lights in freezing, far-flung waters, separated only by time. Here, in crisp, crystalline prose, is his moving portrait of the Last Frontier, then and now"--
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"Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park. Which is why C.B. Bernard lashed his canoe to the roof of his truck and headed northwest. When a distant cousin revealed that a common relation had made the same trek a century earlier, Bernard began chasing the legacy of this legendary hunter and explorer up the family tree, discovering hundreds of pages of journals that wound up in a closet at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Using these journals, Bernard threw himself at Alaska, boating to remote islands, hiking distant forests, hunting and fishing the landscape, and forming a moving portrait, then and now, of the last frontier"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bernard, C. B. (2013). Chasing Alaska: a portrait of the last frontier then and now . Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bernard, C. B. 2013. Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now. Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bernard, C. B. Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bernard, C. B. Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press, 2013.
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