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Valued Landscapes of the Far North
Valued Landscapes of the Far North blends cultural, historical, and physical geographies of Denali National Park for an insightful and humanistic perspective of Alaska's pristine national park and the "visitor experience" there. This illustrated book explores human-environmental interactions, shows how applied historical and cultural geography can help address environmental and management concerns, and looks at Denali as a therapeutic landscape, capable of enhancing a combination of physical, mental, and spiritual healing. Palka employs the concept of place as the integrating theme in his quest to better understand this important biosphere reserve, whose preeminence also stems from its popul...
Jessie
Jessie: the story of a genteel lady in frontier Alaska is the fascinating saga of one of Alaska's most remarkable women of the Goldrush/Sourdough Era. In 1913, Jessie Mather, born to a wealthy, Victorian family in Sheffield, England, was stranded with her parents in Eagle, Alaska, by the outbreak of WWI because funds to continue travel became unavailable. Some fifty-six years later, in 1969, Jessie died in Sitka, and the few remaining items of her estate were sold in a state auction. The author who purchased those mementos unseen soon realized it would be possible to reconstruct the life of this pioneer lady from the contents of the ancient trunk, and thus Jessie's story - a true riches-to-rags adventure - chronicles the life of this durable Alaskan citizen.
Cool Creatures, Hot Planet
Describes an eight-trip, three-and-a-half-year-long adventure to some of the wildest places on all seven continents searching for rare and interesting wildlife.
Alaska by RV
My wife and I had long dreamed of traveling to Alaska. I retired in 2006, we purchased a motor home in 2007, and in 2008 we made our dream come true. You can too!This book recounts our 5-month long, 8,700-mile trip from Milwaukee to Fairbanks and back in day-by-day detail. It tells of the amazing sights we saw and the surprises we found, both positive and negative. It includes several humorous tales of the road and describes some mistakes we made and things we wish we had done better. It is, in summary, the book I wish I had been able to read before we left home.The book provides maps that show where we went and includes over 230 photographs of our journey. It discusses the preparations we made and discloses not only our budget for the trip, but the amounts we actually spent and what we spent them on. And at the back, it lists the places we went and the campgrounds we used together with available addresses, phone numbers, websites and geo coordinates.
The Milepost
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The Northwest Milepost
The editors of The Milepost offer mile-by-mile logs of the key highways in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana and southwestern Canada. Helpful maps, color photographs, and detailed facts are included.
U.S. National Forest Campground Guide, Alaska Region
Whether you camp in a tent or a recreational vehicle (RV), there are campgrounds in U.S. national forests to satisfy the needs of most campers. The U.S. National Forest Campground Guide, Alaska Region (Alaska), describes 20 developed campgrounds in 2 National Forests located in the state of Alaska. All of the campgrounds were personally visited and researched by the authors of this Guide.There are more than 50 items of information for each campground, narrative descriptions (including authors' anecdotes), maps displaying the relative location of the campgrounds, and quick look-up tables to help in the selection of a campground. In addition, there are sidebars throughout the Guide containing useful information about camping, the forests, things to do, and the authors' experiences.
The Milepost, 1994
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