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

Heacox, Kim

 
9781493009329: John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America

Synopsis

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

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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.
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9780762792429: John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How A Visionary And The Glaciers Of Alaska Changed America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0762792426 ISBN 13 :  9780762792429
Editeur : Lyons Press, 2014
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