Four Quarters of Light - An Alaskan Journey
by Keenan, Brian
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385603061
- ISBN 13
- 9780385603065
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Brian Keenan's journey through Alaska.Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy while reading Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. With a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed by his love of desolate and barren places, Brian Keenan sets out for Alaska to discover its four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, and en route, finds a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure... From dog-mushing on a frozen lake beneath the whirling colours of the aurora borealis to camping in a two dollar tent in the tundra of the arctic circle, Brian Keenan seeks out the ultimate wilderness experience and along the way, encounters hard-core survivalists who know what struggle and endurance mean from their daily battle with nature to exist. He discovers that true wilderness is as much a state of mind as it is a place. And ultimately to make Alaska home, one must surrender to the land.
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003524
- Title
- Four Quarters of Light - An Alaskan Journey
- Author
- Keenan, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385603061
- ISBN 13
- 9780385603065
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- TRAVEL, ALASKA, ESKIMOS, FAIRBANKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel - General;
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