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Green Alaska; Dreams From the Far Coast
by Nancy Lord (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1582430020
- ISBN 13
- 9781582430027
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Washington, DC: Counterpoint , 1999 Counterpoint, Washington, DC. 1999. Hardcover. Author signed on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: NOT price clipped; Fine. Gold boards with brown overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. 170 pp 8vo. This contemporary account of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition is done 100 years after that voyage as the author follows the Alaskan Coast by boat and dream, seeking to understand this century's attitudes towards nature, landscape, and culture against those of the original naturalists in the Harriman Expedition. A clean pristine copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004694
- Title
- Green Alaska; Dreams From the Far Coast
- Author
- Nancy Lord (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1582430020
- ISBN 13
- 9781582430027
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Harriman Alaska Expedition, Coastal Alaska, Alaska, commercial fishing, Native American life, nature, naturalists, John Muir, poetry, explorers, glaciers,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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