Peter Jenkins finds Alaska
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As a long-time Peter Jenkins reader, it was great to get in on a few more adventures. Honestly, NOTHING could top Walk Across American and The Walk West, but this is a very interesting look at many aspects of Alaska, the place and people, with a dash or two of classic Peter Jenkins "jump in with your eyes closed and hope to survive!"
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Mr. Smith accurately portrays Alaska and the opportunities and experiences of flying in this great state.  Tom flew many hours for me as I directed the Forest Service team in charge of inventorying the natural resources of Alaska.  I am one of the characters in his book, the guy with the 12 speed pickup.  While I very much enjoyed this book, an even better read is his recently released book "Facing PTSD".  Both are well written, informative, and full of Tom's straight forward honesty and good humor.
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I have never been to Alaska or the Yukon, but this book makes me want to go. The story overall has a good pace, and the descriptions of the land are really fantastic. The illustrations are amazing and the different layers in the story make me want to read Rumble Bear number two in the future.
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I got the call in July, 2015: Joes travel partner to Alaska had to cancel-would I be interested in the drive?
Meeting at Glacier National Park, we headed North on the Alaska Highway: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon Territory into Alaska. 6 days, 2400 miles, primitive camping, hiking areas around Red Deer, Grand Prairie, Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park, Kluane Lake and Fairbanks. Watching bears harvest salmon, sheep locking horns or moose swimming rivers, Joes photos of the landscape and wildlife leap from the pages and invite the reader to book the trip to Gates of the Arctic National Park!
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This story could have been based on dozens of true Alaska survival stories. Takes place following WW2 and the beginning of Alaska's Bush Pilot era and before the oil boom. Beautiful story of survival in the wilderness and the necessity of working together and relying on each other. The dangers of the  last of the great frontiers is only diminished by the beauty.
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I've lived in Alaska for over 40 years.  Reading Jack London was the main catalyst
for my wanderlust, for my original travels to the arctic.  I had a boyfriend who
recommended this book and who dreamed of traveling to Alaska.  He never made
it to the arctic but I did - and I stayed.

This book is poignant, hopeful and sad - all in one.  It is about a great dog named
Buck and his resilience and love for his master, Thornton.  Buck is tenacious, resil-
ient and fearless in the face of abuse and adversity of all sorts.  He is a great dog!
I chuckled when Buck scared off 12 wolverines.  Wolverines are considered the
most ferocious of animals.  If you run across a wolverine in Alaska, you pray or
run or shoot.

There was one little anachronism that bothered me.  Jack London talks about
crickets in Alaska but there are no crickets in the arctic.  I miss crickets so I am
sure about this fact!

When I re-read this book recently, I remembered with nostalgia the very first
time I read it as an adolescent and how it led me to my home in Fairbanks.  This
is a great book about the arctic, about a great dog, and a great book overall.
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One of the greatest American writer's tells the tale of a man who ventures into the Yukon without a full understanding of the dangers.  A vivid description of the perils in traveling in the severe cold (-75 degrees!)  and the desperate struggle to survive by building a fire.
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This is an amazing story about a man named Dick Proenneke who retired and decided to leave the civilized world and live in the harshes climate of the Alaskan Twin Lakes area.  I have read the book and the DVD shows you movies that Dick took himself.  Very motivational film. It is fascinating to read and watch the adventures of this man's life story and wonder if you could do the same.  Highly recommend this DVD as a companion to the book.  He sure knew how to survive in the cold.  The man built a log cabin in about two weeks, it would probably take me two weeks to cut down one tree !  got to see this DVD.
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ALASKA by Lisa Maloney
Published by Moon Press,
An imprint of Perseus books,
A division of Hachette

This is the only guidebook on Alaska you will ever need. Truly.

We went some years back to Alaska for an incredible two weeks, both in the city, and in the wilds.

And we had some sort of guide book, but this is a guidebook to beat all guidebooks.

Its 475 pages, but don't let that scare you.

 It has 10 chapters, with sub sections in each:
Discover Alaska

Juneau and Southeast Alaska

Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska

Denali, Fairbanks and the Interior

Kodiak and Southwest Alaska

The Arctic

Alaska Wildlife

Background

Essentials

Resources

Index

List of Maps

Alaska is the least developed state in the U.S.

And the most magnificent, as it has more undeveloped natural space than other states.

 And because it is so far north, it has incredible natural formations that are simply larger, and more in their natural state than most other states.

Of course, we have many states with incredible natural formations, but Alaska is an entire state, and our largest state at that.

When we went years ago, Alaska was just as incredible, and preserved in its natural state.

 Now, the tourist services are much more plentiful, so it is easier to have it both ways  natural wilderness and tourist services.

We camped in Denali, but silly us, we were in tents, and everybody else was in a camper vehicle.

We saw a wolf chase a caribou for several days, pursuing the caribou fiercely until it had worn out the old, and likely sick caribou, and the wolf won. We witnessed how animals live in Alaska. It is fierce and cruel.

We saw plenty of eagles...

...and we did see grizzlies.  Lucky for us, we were on the bus. The tour bus. When camping in Denali all food had to be kept in a bear proof locker. But we were never in danger.

The icebergs around Anchorage are magnificent, and thats only the part you can see.

We spent a day at the Exit Glacier.  Forget me nots, Alaskas state flower, a beautiful blue flower adorns tourist center buildings and similar buildings.

We were there in August years back, and we could practically just pick up the salmon in the streams with our hands.

We took a train from Anchorage to Denali, an old-fashioned Dome train, much like the kind youd have seen in the 50s.

The book is extremely well organized.

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For example, Chapter One contains:
Planning Your Trip
15 Top Experiences
Know Before You Go
 Best of Alaska

Available, hardcover, paperback, Kindle.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0A14DS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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I had read "Looking for Alaska" by John Green and really liked it (I would have given that 5 stars as well) and I decided to read this book... and it was phenomenal! READ IT :)
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Tracie Peterson did a really good job of making us get involved with her characters. On top of that, she takes us up to the gold fields of Alaska. We find out how people survived the cold of Alaska. What we want as readers is for the main character to be rid of the man, Paxton. Twice the author found a way to save our heroin. This is a good read.
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Though not well-known, Hobo Jim is Alaska's favorite troubadour.  This song pays tribute to Joe Redington, founder of the commemorative Iditarod sled dog race, held annually the first weekend in March.  The course, which runs from Anchorage to Nome is one of the last great races on the planet and is a test of human endurance and will to succeed.  Redington's sons and grandsons still run the race; he is an icon and a hero to Alaskans.  Hobo Joe's songs, many of which he writes himself, are based his own experiences as a fisherman, logger, and miner, eking out a living as many Alaskans have always done.  He is cut from the same cloth as other folk artists who have put our culture to music over the years.  Though not prolific, he has a number of albums out, all of which I highly recommend.
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Well written book with great references to Alaska. I live in Alaska and appreciated the up to date references she used and the practical information only someone living here would use.
The story was enjoyable and the characters memorable.
I started reading her 2nd book because of this!
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As someone who has spent some time living in Alaska, this author describes the place and its people perfectly. Only someone who lived that life could do it justice. It is evident that the author has spent  some time in the small towns and villages of Alaska. I am hooked on this series and I have gotten my wife hooked also.
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My Trip to southcentral Alaska was so much more fun when I sort of knew what i was looking at.  Alaska geology is by far the most complicated I have ever experienced.  This book is well researched.  Now I have to go back and check  out the ferry routes described In the book.
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I enjoyed the fast pace of this story although VERY short  for one of Janet Dailey. Stories. ENJOYED the information on the state of Alaska.it is interesting that there are so many unsupported.
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The expedition to find and explore Crocker Land in the Arctic is not nearly as famous as many other expeditions that have had books written about them, but that doesn't make any it any less compelling.  The story starts with Robert E. Peary's expedition to reach the north pole.  On his way, he spots a new land mass that he dubs "Crocker Land".  This book follows the efforts of two members of Peary's Arctic expedition as they become tight friends and try to put their own expedition together to investigate Crocker Land.

The book follows them as they struggle to put together the expedition through the trip to the Arctic to find Crocker Land.  It is an eventful journey and filled with colorful characters, which author David Wilkey brings vividly to life.  The resolution of the search for Crocker Land is fairly climactic, but this book is all about the journey and how the members of the expedition are changed by it.  It held my interest for the 400 pages of this book.