When Grant West crashes his bush plane on a lake high on the Juneau Icecap, his 15-year-old son is the only person who knows how to fly the only plane that can land and take off from the small lake. Is the boy man enough for the job?
When Grant West crashes his bush plane on a lake high on the Juneau Icecap, his 15-year-old son is the only person who knows how to fly the only plane...
Travelers to Southeast Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada now have a historical guide to the Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.
Divided into two main sections, Archie Satterfield's invaluable book begins with a detailed history of the Klondike gold rush of 1897-98.
The second part is a modern-day travel guide to the new international park.
A must-read for hikers, paddlers, history buffs and armchair travelers, "Klondike Park" reconnects the past to the present for readers with a taste for adventure
Travelers to Southeast Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada now have a historical guide to the Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park. <...
When Grant West crashes his bush plane on a lake high on the Juneau Icecap, his 15-year-old son is the only person who knows how to fly the only plane that can land and take off from the small lake. Is the boy man enough for the job?
When Grant West crashes his bush plane on a lake high on the Juneau Icecap, his 15-year-old son is the only person who knows how to fly the only plane...
With natives as your guides, this new series steers you down the most scenic and historic byways in the areas they cover, with plenty of intriguing points of interest and places to eat, stay, and shop along the way.
With natives as your guides, this new series steers you down the most scenic and historic byways in the areas they cover, with plenty of intriguing po...
December 7, 1941, is one of those days engraved in the twentieth century memory. It is a landmark day, along with Armistice Day in 1918, the stock market crash in 1929, and the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This book is about ordinary people on that extraordinary day. To a large extent, this book is by the people who remember that day because they have been permitted to tell their own stories in their own words. The book chooses representative stories from the entire country and concentrates on the stories of two destroyers, the USS Ward and the USS Henley, which were...
December 7, 1941, is one of those days engraved in the twentieth century memory. It is a landmark day, along with Armistice Day in 1918, the stock ...
Chilkoot Pass is indeed the most famous trail in the North, and Satterfield has written a book that is ideal for hikers and armchair travelers. It is history, adventure, and an excellent companion to the Klondike Gold Rush National Park- all in one.
At no other time or place in recorded history did so many people voluntarily subject themselves to so much agony, misery, death and glory than in 1897-98 when countless thousands of stampeders crossed the Chilkoot pass on their way to the Klondike gold fields.
Chilkoot Pass is indeed the most famous trail in the North, and Satterfield has written a book that is ideal for hikers and armchair travelers. It ...