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1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; On the Way; In the Country; Out and Beyond. |
Summary |
For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America "big and wild enough to hold the intact landscapes and the dreams that are so absent today from almost everywhere else." In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural w. |
Local Note |
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Lord, Nancy.
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Lord, Nancy. |
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Lord, Nancy -- Travel -- Alaska.
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Travel. |
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Alaska. |
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Lord, Nancy. |
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Outdoor life -- Alaska.
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Outdoor life. |
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Country life -- Alaska.
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Country life. |
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Natural history -- Alaska.
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Natural history. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Alaska.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Human ecology -- Alaska.
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Human ecology. |
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Alaska -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Alaska -- Description and travel.
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Alaska -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lord, Nancy. Rock, water, wild. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803225152 (DLC) 2009004335 (OCoLC)302099699 |
ISBN |
9780803226098 (electronic book) |
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0803226098 (electronic book) |
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9780803225152 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0803225156 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
9786612423857 |
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