Arctic Wild
by Crisler, Lois (signed)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 1135839182
- ISBN 13
- 9781135839185
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper, 1958. Hardcover. Very good. Inscribed to no recipient on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes! Lois Crisler, For 'lands forever wild.'" Uncommon signed. An account of the author and her husband, Herb Crisler, a wilderness photographer, spending 18 months in Alaska's Brooks Range to film caribou and wolves for a Disney documentary. A. Starker Leopold called her wolf observations "the meticulous and complete descriptions of wolf mannerisms and behavior that has been written." Crisler was an English professor at the University of Washington before marrying, became a good friend and confidant of Rachel Carson, and was influential in the development of Silent Spring. As one writer puts it, "Together Carson and Crisler formed a sort of iron sisterhood." Her papers are held at the University of Washington. A very good or better book with light rubbing to corners; lacking the dust jacket.
Synopsis
Photographing wolves and caribou in the remote mountains of Alaska, the Crislers discovered personal adventure and personal values to match a magnificent and spacious land.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1169
- Title
- Arctic Wild
- Author
- Crisler, Lois (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1135839182
- ISBN 13
- 9781135839185
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1958
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