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Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life
by Lord, Nancy
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0803225156
- ISBN 13
- 9780803225152
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About This Item
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 5x1x8. For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America âbig and wild enough to hold the intact landscapes and the dreams that are so absent today from almost everywhere else.â In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural world. Vast and beautiful, and much more than a mere place, Alaska is nonetheless inescapably a land of natural extremes and exquisite subtleties. In Lordâs explorations, âthe countryâ of Alaska evokes reflections on the importance of place and space in our lives; arguments over roads carved in the wilderness; musings on the role of location and landscape in the Denaâina Athabascan language; accounts of sport fishing in the Russian Far East in the first days of perestroika and of climbing in the Arrigetch Peaks of Alaskaâs Brooks Range; and considerations of the politics of whaling. In the tradition of naturalists John Muir and John Burroughs, Lord proves an excellent guide to the challenges and pleasures of making oneself at home on this Earth.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010028473
- Title
- Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life
- Author
- Lord, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0803225156
- ISBN 13
- 9780803225152
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, Ne
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 16 oz
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