The Quiet World; Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
by Brinkley, Douglas
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0062005960
- ISBN 13
- 9780062005960
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins Publishers 978-0-06-200596-0 [978-0-06-200596-0] 2011. (Hardcover) 576pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, color photographs, notes, index. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge. "A riveting history of America's most beautiful natural resources, The Quiet World documents the heroic fight waged by the U.S. Federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save wild Alaska - Mount McKinley, the Tongass and Chugach national forests, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Lake Clark, and the Coastal Plain of the Beaufort Sea, among other treasured landscapes - from the extraction industries". Time Period 19th Century & 20th Century. Locale: Alaska--United States; Western America. (Western America, Arctic Life, Natural History, Resource Development, Wilderness).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153459
- Title
- The Quiet World; Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
- Author
- Brinkley, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0062005960
- ISBN 13
- 9780062005960
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers 978-0-06-200596-0
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2011-01
- Keywords
- Western America, Arctic Life, Natural History, Resource Development, Wilderness
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICAN HISTORY;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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