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Collected Poems of Robert Service
Robert Service
Putnam Adult, 1989
OUTSTANDING collection of poems!
+ Holds its own, after all these years
+ Poetry I like.
+ We love it!
+ We love it!
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Klondike Tales (Modern Library Classics)
Jack London
Modern Library, 2001
As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the ...
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Fairbanks: Alaska's Heart of Gold
Tricia Brown
Alaska Northwest Books, 2000
concise introduction to the "Golden Heart City"
I bought this as a primer for my (future) trip to Fairbanks. Some consider this frontier town, and not "Los" Anchorage, to be the "real" Alaska. The authors include interesting historical tidbits, demographics and myths. I've donated most of my books to charity, but this one's a keeper :)
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The Yukon Fact Book: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Yukon
Mark Zuehlke
Whitecap Books, 1998
Rich source for facts and history of a haunting land
A treasure of information about a remote unpopulated space. Extremely helpful economic, demographic and cultural facts intertwined with folklore and culture.
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Discovering Denali: A Complete Reference Guide to Denali National Park and Mount McKinley, Alaska
Dow Scoggins
iUniverse.com, 2001
Discover Denali easy way
+ Like a Frommer's or Fodor's Guide to the Denali NP Area
+ Very Enticing Book: Now I Have To Go There!
+ Finally a complete guide to Denali National Park, AK
+ Finally, a great guide!
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The Spell of the Yukon
Robert Service
Putnam Adult, 1988
Wild Prose, Rough Living, Tender Heart
+ A pleasing discovery
+ American Poetry Classic
Robert Service wrote in the golden years of the Klondike -- of the rough and ready men, and women just as tough. No-one in Robert's world (real or imagined) minced words or had any self-consciousness about them. It was live and let live and sometimes kill or be killed. Reading his poems ...
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Lost Gold Mines of Alaska: And Great Gold Robberies of the Alaska Gold Rush Era
Ron Wendt
Goldstream Pubns, 1998
An exciting look into missing gold mines, gold bandits, detailed accounts of Alaskan ghost towns. Rich in history dating back over 100 years. Millions of dollars in gold, lost in time throughout the north. Ghost town info and much more! In celebration of 100 years of the Alaska Gold Rush
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Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/ Yukon Gold Rush
Lael Morgan
Epicenter Press, 2003
Best Of The West!
+ Interesting side to the "gold miners"
+ Fun history of the world's (c)oldest profession in AK
The Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, a time at the turn of the century, when the gold camps were booming and the dust flowed like wine. Leaving behind law and many of the constraints of the Post-Victorian era, men and women went north to find adventure and wealth. Most found death among the cold frozen ...
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Murder on the Yukon Quest: An Alaska Mystery
Sue Henry
Avon, 2000
Topnotch thriller
Sue Henry is back to her best form in this sixth book of the Alaska Mystery Series. Jessie Arnold decides to forego the Iditerod in order to compete in the less famous but more rugged Yukon Quest. Partway through the race, one of the mushers is kidnapped and Jessie is asked to deliver ransom to ...
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The Milepost 2001: Trip Planner for Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta & Northwest ...
Morris Communications Company, 2001
Alaska Milepost 2005
+ The Must-Have Guide for Road Travel in Alaska
+ Milepost 2005--Don't leave home without it
+ Great guide for driving Alaska or NW Canada
+ Alaska travel
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Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/ Yukon Gold Rush
Lael Morgan
Epicenter Press, 2003
Best Of The West!
+ Interesting side to the "gold miners"
+ Fun history of the world's (c)oldest profession in AK
The Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, a time at the turn of the century, when the gold camps were booming and the dust flowed like wine. Leaving behind law and many of the constraints of the Post-Victorian era, men and women went north to find adventure and wealth. Most found death among the cold frozen ...
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Fairbanks: Alaska's Heart of Gold
Tricia Brown
Alaska Northwest Books, 2000
concise introduction to the "Golden Heart City"
I bought this as a primer for my (future) trip to Fairbanks. Some consider this frontier town, and not "Los" Anchorage, to be the "real" Alaska. The authors include interesting historical tidbits, demographics and myths. I've donated most of my books to charity, but this one's a keeper :)
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The Spell of the Yukon
Robert Service
Putnam Adult, 1988
Wild Prose, Rough Living, Tender Heart
+ A pleasing discovery
+ American Poetry Classic
Robert Service wrote in the golden years of the Klondike -- of the rough and ready men, and women just as tough. No-one in Robert's world (real or imagined) minced words or had any self-consciousness about them. It was live and let live and sometimes kill or be killed. Reading his poems ...
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The Yukon Fact Book: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Yukon
Mark Zuehlke
Whitecap Books, 1998
Rich source for facts and history of a haunting land
A treasure of information about a remote unpopulated space. Extremely helpful economic, demographic and cultural facts intertwined with folklore and culture.
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The Milepost 2001: Trip Planner for Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta & Northwest ...
Morris Communications Company, 2001
Alaska Milepost 2005
+ The Must-Have Guide for Road Travel in Alaska
+ Milepost 2005--Don't leave home without it
+ Great guide for driving Alaska or NW Canada
+ Alaska travel
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