Tip Of The Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

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by Mark Adams

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Tip Of The Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

by Mark Adams

2 ratings • 1 review • 3 shelved

"In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America's most sublime wilderness, both the lure that draws a million tourists annually on Inside Passage cruises and a natural resources larder waiting to be raided. As ever, it remains a magnet for weirdos and dreamers" -- Amazon.com.

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ISBN10 1101985100
ISBN13 9781101985106
Publish Date 17 May 2018
Publish Status Out of Stock
Publish Country US
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint E P Dutton & Co Inc

Format Hardcover
Pages 336
Language English

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I've lived in Alaska, as has my husband. That was my initial draw to read this book. But what KEPT me reading it was the excellent intertwining of the historical trip and the current trip the author took, and written with fascinating facts.