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Finding True North - First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska (Paperback)
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Finding True North - First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 940
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Melting sea ice and rumbling volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through
unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly
Rettig moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to work as a reporter at the
local newspaper. An avid environmentalist, she couldn't wait to
explore the vast, untamed spaces that had largely been paved over
on the east coast. But when her 72-year-old neighbor, Clutch,
invites her on a tour of his gold mine-an 800-foot tunnel blasted
into the side of his house-she begins to question many of her ideas
about Alaska, and about herself. In Finding True North, Rettig
takes us on a gripping journey through Alaska's past that brings
alive the state's magnificent country and its quirky,
larger-than-life characters. She meets a trapper who harvests all
she needs from the land, a bush pilot who taught himself how to
fly, and an archaeologist who helped build an oil pipeline through
pristine wilderness. While she learns how airplanes, mines, and oil
fields have paved the way for newcomers like herself, she also
stumbles upon a bigger question: what has this quest for Alaska's
natural resources actually cost, and how much more is at stake?
This is a book about all the ways wild places teach us about
ourselves. Rettig writes both playfully and honestly about how one
place can be many things to many people-and how all of it can be
true.
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