Jim Rearden's Alaska. Fifty Years Of Frontier Adventure

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 288 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: For half a century, Jim Rearden has fulfilled a dream-traveling throughout the Far North in search of interesting people, places, and events and writing about them. In Jim Reardens Alaska , this longtime former outdoors editor for Alaska magazine has combined twenty-two previously published pieces into a single collection. Articles are interspersed with fresh personal insights into a changing Alaska and are illustrated by many of the black-and-white photographs that appeared with the original articles. Rearden shares his favorite stories of early sourdoughs who challenged Alaskas wilderness in the 1920s and 30s; of encounters with wolves, wolverines, and huge brown bears; of the Alaska Scouts who played a key role in the brutal Aleutian Campaign of World War II; of lighthearted and hair-raising adventures of Alaskas early bush pilots; of narrow escapes from death on Mount McKinley and in the Gulf of Alaska; and of a humorous look at Hollywoods attempt to make a "genuine Alaskan" film. "These articles represent my ideal Alaska," Rearden says.

ISBN: 9780970849311