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Edward Abbey, who never much liked Alaska, called it our biggest, buggiest,boggiest state. To others, it has been a cure for despair. When the authormoved to Fairbanks more than three decades ago, he was a cheechako,a subarctic tenderfoot. Gathering skills and experiences the hard way, heattained Sourdough status while realizing there would always be more tolearn, see, and do in the land of midnight sun and auroras.

En route, Engelhard suffered frostbite, stubborn yaks, grizzly charges, trophyhunters, cold-water immersion, heartbreak, incontinent raptors, one peskysquirrel, and honeymooners from abroad. He tried to rescue a raven andexplored Arctic dunes and a glacier's blue heart, and his own, as he mingledwith caribou on their epic journeys.

What the River Knows

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      Publisher: Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/1/2024
      ISBN13: 9780888397782, 978-0888397782
      ISBN10: 088839778X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Edward Abbey, who never much liked Alaska, called it our biggest, buggiest,boggiest state. To others, it has been a cure for despair. When the authormoved to Fairbanks more than three decades ago, he was a cheechako,a subarctic tenderfoot. Gathering skills and experiences the hard way, heattained Sourdough status while realizing there would always be more tolearn, see, and do in the land of midnight sun and auroras.

      En route, Engelhard suffered frostbite, stubborn yaks, grizzly charges, trophyhunters, cold-water immersion, heartbreak, incontinent raptors, one peskysquirrel, and honeymooners from abroad. He tried to rescue a raven andexplored Arctic dunes and a glacier's blue heart, and his own, as he mingledwith caribou on their epic journeys.

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