Description
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of Gold ; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; 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 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 Land shows that there are no easy answers on either side and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.
Author: Walter R. Borneman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/20/2004
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.96w x 1.22d
ISBN13: 9780060503079
ISBN10: 0060503076
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | General
- Travel | United States | West | Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
- Nature | Natural Resources