Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Fradkin, Philip L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520239067 ISBN 13: 9780520239067

Verlag: University of California Press, 2003

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Book by Fradkin Philip L

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"Beginning with powerful earthquakes, freakish waves, huge landslides, and massive glaciers--all natural forces that have haunted Lituya Bay, a remote section of Glacier Bay National Park, for centuries--Wildest Alaska weaves together tales of shipwrecks, supernatural beings, a 1,740-foot killer wave, and ghostly grizzly bears in an eerily compelling memoir charting the impact of nature's dark side upon a singular landscape. This slim volume presents an elegant historical, geologic, and cultural portrait as fascinating, for Fradkin, as a laboratory. "--"Travel + Life

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Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted by the threads of violence woven through the natural and human histories of Lituya Bay. Could these histories be related, and if so, how? The attempt to define the power of this wild place was a tantalizing and, as it turned out, dangerous quest. This compelling and eerie memoir tells of Fradkin's odyssey through recorded human history and eventually to the bay itself, as he explores the dark and unyielding side of nature. Natural forces have always dominated Lituya Bay. Immense storms, powerful earthquakes, huge landslides, and giant waves higher than the world's tallest skyscrapers pound the whale-shaped fjord. Compelling for its deadly beauty, the bay has attracted visitors over time, but it has never been mastered by them. Its seasonal occupants throughout recorded history - Tlingit Indians, European explorers, gold miners, and coastal fishermen seeking a harbor of refuge - have drowned, gone mad, slaughtered fur-bearing animals with abandon, sifted the black sand beaches for minute particles of gold, and murdered each other. Only a hermit found peace there. Then the author and his small son visited the bay and were haunted by a grizzly bear. As an environmental writer for the "Los Angeles Times" and western editor of "Audubon" magazine, Fradkin has travelled from Tierra del Fuego to the North Slope of Alaska. But nothing prepared him for Lituya Bay, a place so powerful it turned one person's hair white. This story resonates with echoes of Melville, Poe, and Conrad as it weaves together the human and natural histories of a beautiful and wild place.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0520239067
• ISBN 13: 9780520239067
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 197