John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America - Couverture souple

Heacox, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 149300932X ISBN 13 : 9781493009329

Editeur : Gpp, 2015

Synopsis

A dual biography of both the glaciers of Alaska and John Muir, the man responsible for teaching America to embrace its wilderness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kim Heacox is the author of several books on biography, history, and conservation, plus a novel, Caribou Crossing, about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His Alaska memoir, The Only Kayak (Lyons Press), a PEN USA Literary Award finalist in creative nonfiction, is now in its seventh printing. Kim was a writer-in-residence at Cambridge University’s Scott Polar Research Institute in 1998, and in Denali National Park in 2012. He has written feature articles for many national magazines and opinion-editorials for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Anchorage Daily News. He lives with his wife, Melanie, in the little town of Gustavus, near Glacier Bay in Alaska. Visit him at kimheacox.com.
Visit him at www.kimheacox.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gpp
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 149300932X
• ISBN 13: 9781493009329
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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