"Reader beware: Fradkin's history of sinisterly beautiful Lituya Bay is to Alaska travelogues as Kubrick's "The Shining" is to hotel commercials. After finishing this unnerving tale of Tlingit monsters, kilometer-high waves, mystery bears and inexplicable murders, I looked under my bed to make sure the Land Otter Man wasn't lurking there. A gothic tour de force by America's finest environmental journalist."--Mike Davis, author of "Ecology of Fear: Los Angles and the Imagination of Disaster" and "City of Quartz: Excavating ...
Read More
"Reader beware: Fradkin's history of sinisterly beautiful Lituya Bay is to Alaska travelogues as Kubrick's "The Shining" is to hotel commercials. After finishing this unnerving tale of Tlingit monsters, kilometer-high waves, mystery bears and inexplicable murders, I looked under my bed to make sure the Land Otter Man wasn't lurking there. A gothic tour de force by America's finest environmental journalist."--Mike Davis, author of "Ecology of Fear: Los Angles and the Imagination of Disaster" and "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angles" "Philip Fradkin is a master storyteller--and his stories are full of adventure, primordial beauty, violence, and dread. He tells stories of places as well as people, and especially of the power of wild, archaic nature to disrupt or even destroy our power-hungry civilization. His is a compelling voice, warning us never to take the earth and its elemental forces for granted."--Donald Worster, author of "Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West" "A first-rate piece of travel literature. Nothing that I have read so captures the restless, violent, somber history of this area, from so many perspectives and with such energy and zest. Fradkin draws upon history, ethnology, ethnohistory, and the natural sciences, and creates literature--being personal, opinionated, and readable, all in the best traditions of travel writing."--Malcolm Margolin, Publisher, Heyday Books
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Just a trifle wrinkle to opening flap. Otherwise bright and as new. Journeys of great peril to Lituya Bay.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. A nice hardcover with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Pages tanning, otherwise as new. 183 p. Includes: illustrations, index. By the late author of 'Wallace Stegner and the American West' and 'Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine. Signed by author. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 197 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay. Audience: General/trade. Signed by Author! Clean, tight pages. No bent corners.