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Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness by James Anderson Publisher Comments Backed by Wien Airlines, former Navy combat pilot Andy Anderson pioneered post-World War II bush service to Alaska's vast Koyokuk River region serving miners, Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted bush rats. He flew mining equipment... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Iditarod Fact Book by Tricia (edt) Brown Publisher Comments Join the race across Alaska with the Iditarod Fact Book. From mushers and dogs passing under the burled arch in Nome to volunteers working at checkpoints, everybody is a winner in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. All play essential roles in an annual... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project by William A. Newman Publisher Comments A fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project that filled Boston's Back Bay.... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformes Life In... by Dermot Cole Publisher Comments America needed the oil. In the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74, during which Americans waited hours in line to buy rationed gasoline, the world's largest construction companies rushed north to build the 900-mile, $8 billion Trans... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alaska's Sky Follies: The Funny Side of Flying in the Far North by Joe Rychetnik Publisher Comments You know those outlandish tales you've heard about the early bush pilots of the Far North? Author Joe Rychetnik, a former Alaska State Trooper turned reporter-photographer and correspondent for Time-Life News Service and United Press International... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of My Own Times: Or, or the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sr., Comprising A... (Documents in American Social History) by William Otter Publisher Comments This is one of the few first-person accounts of a rural artisan in pre-genteel American. The book depicts the ambiguities of race relation in the early nineteenth century, sheds light on its definition of manhood, and conveys a sense of humor very... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon by Ed Ferrell Publisher Comments From the Far North come startling accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: mammoths frozen whole in a glacier, a tropical valley deep in the Arctic. This is the mysterious side of Alaska that you'll never find in history books.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Moose Droppings & Other Crimes of Nature: Funny Stories from Alaska by Tom Brennan Publisher Comments In these one-liners, practical jokes, and funny stories, Tom Brennan shares hilarious and engaging tales of people, animals, and politicians of the Far North.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Miraculous Air (07 Edition) by Mayo Publisher Comments This exquisite book is a rare jewel in the literature of Mexico and its little-known peninsula, Baja. Describing her adventures on this austere and beautiful slip of land, Mayo creates a multi-layered map of a place filled with daredevil aviators, sea... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Triangle Fire (01 Edition) by Leon Stein Publisher Comments On March 25, 1911, 146 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City were killed in the span of a few minutes because no provision had been made for their safety in the event of fire. The Cornell edition of Leon Stein's 1962 account... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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When the Mines Closed : Stories of Struggles in Hard Times (98 Edition) by Thomas Dublin Publisher Comments The anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania, five hundred square miles of rugged hills stretching between Tower City and Carbondale, harbored coal deposits that once heated virtually all the homes and businesses in Eastern cities. At its peak... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Parks and Carrying Capacity: Commons Without Tragedy by Robert E. Manning Publisher Comments How much can we use the environment without spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each year as the number of visits continues to increase... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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People of Paradox by Michael G. Kammen Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and index.... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Puritan Experiment (Rev 95 Edition) by Francis J. Bremer Publisher Comments The comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America by Rocky Barker Publisher Comments In 1988, forest fires raged in Yellowstone National Park, destroying more than a million acres. As the nation watched the land around Old Faithful burn, a longstanding conflict over fire management reached a fever pitch. Should the U.S. Park and Forest... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Environmental Research #1: Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern Michigan: A Geoarchaeological Synthesis by G. William Monaghan Publisher Comments Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern Michigan is the first volume in the Environmental Research Series. The product of more than two decades of research, it examines relationships between regional and local scale fluvial system evolution and... (read more) Your price: $35.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Cheating Death: Amazing Survival Stories from Alaska by Larry Kaniut Publisher Comments Alaska's best-known storyteller offers a chilling collection of survival stories from pilots, hikers, hunters, climbers, boaters, and fishermen who confront their mortality -- and live to tell about it! You will be astonished by the close calls of a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poles in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan) by Dennis Badaczewski Publisher Comments One of the most vibrant and influential ethnic groups in Michigan, Poles have a long history of migration and settlement in the Great Lakes State. From Michigan’s earliest Polish marriage (in 1762) to the most recent post-Cold War migrations, each... (read more) Your price: $12.75 New - Trade Paper
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Kay Fanning's Alaska Story by Kay Fanning Publisher Comments Kay Woodruff Field, 38, an ex-debutante once called "the Grace Kelly of Chicago," loaded her three children into a battered station wagon and headed north to Alaska in 1965 after her divorce. Looking for a new life, she found it at the... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires by Stephen Pyne Publisher Comments The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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