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Green Alaska

其他書名	Dreams of the Far Coast
出版	Counterpoint, 1999
主題	History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Nature / EssaysTravel / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
ISBN	15824300209781582430027
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uMN5AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In 1899 the Harriman Alaska Expedition assembled a company of exceptional characters -- the nature writers John Burroughs and John Muir, photographer Edward Curtis, scientist William Dell, conservationist and ethnographer George Bird Grinnell, bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, geologist Henry Gannett, and others. They cruised glacial fjords, collected specimens, and photographed Alaska's Native people. Nearly a hundred years later, Nancy Lord, an Alaskan well-rooted in coastal life and commercial fishing, revisits many of the same stops made by the earlier expedition from the pilothouse of a modern salmon tender. At salmon canneries and fox farm islands, on mountaintops and in the "big silences", Green Alaska takes us on a contemplative ride across a century of American attitudes toward wild landscapes, resource development, and culture.