About this title: Originally appearing in The New Yorker, this colorful natural history of Alaska illuminates lesser-known aspects to Native Alaskan culture and provides insight into the state's perpetual debates between conservationists and industrialists.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: H. Hamilton, London
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780241100394ISBN:0241100399
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. [9], 438p. : maps; 23 cm. Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1981 Bantam paperback. NOT EX LIB! Clean, lightly toned pages with some reading wear, creased & scuffed spine & covers, moderate edgewear. 417 p. Glued binding. read more
Description: Good. 0553120301 100% guaranteed. Good shape with a tight spine, creased spine, creased cover, bumped corners, tanning pages and shelf wear. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553204711ISBN:0553204718
Description: Good. -7th Printing--417 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has only light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553204711ISBN:0553204718
Description: Good. -7th Printing--417 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The soft cover has light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780553120301ISBN:0553120301
Description: Good. -Reprint--417 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
"I read this while traveling in Alaska for a month. It is still the baseline by which all other acconts of modern Alaska are measured, but a bit dated now. The chapter on the bush people of the Yukon (a third of the book) is still particularly evocative of the vanishing American frontier. It is sad to know that most of the people described by McPhee have now been pushed off the land by federal agencies that have seized vast swathes of the Alaskan wilderness (which means about 99% of the state); the lifestyle of the independent trapper has fast disappeared from Alaska, helped along by our own government - which will probably erect in its wake a Disney-style frontier villages for tourists to lionize with nostalgia the very thing they killed. Check out 'A Land Gone Lonesome' if you wish to read about the fate of McPhee's river people."
"Written in the mid 70's this feels a bit dated now. But, as always, McPhee's writing is lyrical and vivid. Now I want to find something about Alaska that is more contemporary."
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