| Description |
xii, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 2005. With a new afterword. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228). |
| Summary |
"In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and overdevelopment. Braided through the larger story are tales of gold prospectors and the cabin they built sixty years ago; John Muir and his intrepid terrier, Stickeen; and a dynamic geology professor who teaches earth science 'as if every day were a geological epoch.' Nearly two million people come to Alaska every summer, some on large cruise ships, some in single kayaks--all in search of the last great wilderness, the Africa of America. It is exactly the America Heacox finds in this story of paradox, love, and loss." -- Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Glacier Bay Region (Alaska) -- Description and travel.
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Glacier Bay Region (Alaska) -- Social life and customs.
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Community life -- Alaska -- Glacier Bay Region.
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Outdoor life -- Alaska -- Glacier Bay Region.
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Glacier Bay Region (Alaska) -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmentalism -- Alaska -- Glacier Bay Region.
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Glacier Bay Region (Alaska) -- Biography.
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Heacox, Kim -- Travel -- Alaska -- Glacier Bay Region.
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Kayaking -- Alaska -- Glacier Bay.
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Heacox, Kim (OCoLC)fst01480936
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Community life (OCoLC)fst00871028
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Ecology (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Environmentalism (OCoLC)fst00913543
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Kayaking (OCoLC)fst00986572
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Manners and customs (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Outdoor life (OCoLC)fst01049140
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Travel (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Alaska -- Glacier Bay Region
(OCoLC)fst01341983
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Pacific Ocean -- Glacier Bay
(OCoLC)fst01240230
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Travel writing (OCoLC)fst01919983
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Travel writing.
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| ISBN |
9781493049400 (paperback) |
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1493049402 (paperback) |
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