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Summary: "Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2015
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Summary: "An inspired tribute to the astonishing beauty and priceless cultural treasures of America's National Parks, this volume is a lavish celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. National Geographic The National Parks collects the very best of National Geographic's photographs, combined with an expertly told history: from the multi-hued layers of the Grand Canyon to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 HEAHeacox, Kim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Companion Press 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 917.98 HEAHeacox, Kim.
Summary: "John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire takes two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska, and combines them into a brisk and engaging biography.John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN HEAHeacox, Kim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1999