Walter R. Borneman

Alaska (eBook, ePUB)

Saga of a Bold Land

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This panoramic chronicle of Alaska captures the grandeur of its geography, history, and many larger-than-life personalities: "Just plain terrific" (Bradford Washburn). The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches-and ever present are new people with competing views on how these valuable resources should be used. Here are the stories of Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in WWII; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land itself is to be used-and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of change. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Landshows that there are no easy answers on either side of this perennial debate, and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins e-books
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061865275
• Artikelnr.: 37981587

Autorenporträt

Walter R. Borneman is the author of Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land, 1812: The War That Forged a Nation, and several books on the history of the western United States. He lives in Colorado.