The sun is a compass : a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds

Summary: Documents the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where she and her husband tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections.

Item details

ISBN: 9780316414425
ISBN: 0316414425
Physical Description: print
vii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: Swimming the Chandalar -- Part one: Zugunruhe -- Part two: Inside passage -- Part three: Yukon -- Part four: Arctic coast -- Part five: Brooks Range -- Epilogue: Three on the lost coast.
Language Note:	Text in English.

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Subject:

Van Hemert, Caroline Travel Alaska
Wilderness areas Alaska
Alaska Description and travel
Ornithologists United States Biography
Birds Alaska
Natural history Alaska
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions
TRAVEL / Polar Regions

Genre:

Biographies.
Travel writing.
Autobiography.
Travel writing.

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