National Geographic Treasures of Alaska

Jeff Rennicke

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National Geographic Society
15 July 2010

Places & peoples: pictorial works

Alaska is high on everybody's travel wish list and this book serves as both inspiration and motivation for planning their next great adventure.

This new look at Alaska as the destination for wilderness experience in America celebrates the many lives and unique landscapes that make up the vast and storied land. The book captures Alaska's splendor with an astonishing combination of prose and photographsfrom mountain ranges glittering with glaciers to lush forests and wetlands teeming with wildlife to fjords exploding with the barks of seals.

Visiting the places and people whose natures are true to the spirit of this still wild frontier, Rennicke and Melford follow a dogsled team up a frozen mountain river in search of an Alaskan Eden; hike along active volcanoes that brim and boil in the Aleutian Islands; summit Mount McKinley with a double-amputee bush pilot in a triumph of spirit and determination over the mountain that almost killed him; and journey back through Alaska's human history, to the times of the Gold Rush miners, totem pole carvers, and nomadic hunters who crossed the Bering Land Bridge and discovered a new land.

From grizzlies to glaciers, gold fields to ice fields, fishing boats to northern lights, Treasures of Alaska uncovers the wild heart and the endless challenge that make Alaska a land of enduring beauty and undying dreams.

By: Jeff Rennicke
Imprint: National Geographic Society
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 564g
ISBN: 9781426205873
ISBN 10: 1426205872
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 15 July 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeff Rennicke a former wilderness guide in the Gates of the Arctic National Park has written more than 250 articles. Michael Melford is an award-winning photographer whose work appears regularly in National Geographic Traveler, Fortune, Smithsonian, and Coastal Living.

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-Michael Melford's stunning photography makes this attractive book an especially good bargain.- -Book News -National Geographic has a particular genius for publishing inexpensive books that combine lively, well-written text and glorious color photographs in the service of introducing readers to a subject or place. This new book on Alaska is an especially good example of the genre.- -Book News

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