The Reader's Companion to Alaska
- ISBN-10
- 0156003686
- ISBN-13
- 9780156003681
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 395
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Alan Ryan
Description
An anthology of travel writing about Alaska offers twenty-eight accounts dating from 1879 to the present, and includes writings by John Muir, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Kuralt, Ernie Pyle, and John McPhee
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