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Author Wood, Ginny.

Title Boots, bikes, and bombers : adventures of Alaska conservationist Ginny Hill Wood / edited by Karen Brewster.

Publication Info. Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 523 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Oral biography series ; v. 5
Oral biography series ; no. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Childhood : The Foundation of an Adventurous Life -- Europe by Bicycle -- Flying and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots -- A Life-long Friendship : Meeting Celia Hunter -- A Summer Under Sail -- Alaska : The Early Years -- Returning to Europe -- Exploring Katmai National Park -- Finding a Place to Call Home -- Establishing Camp Denali : Alaska's First Wilderness Camp -- Driving the Denali Park Road -- Exploring Mount McKinley's Backcountry -- Camp Denali Staff and Friends -- Flying Search and Rescue -- Selling Camp Denali -- Preserving Alaska -- Tundra Treks : Guiding Wilderness Trips -- Breaking Trail -- Traveling the Globe -- The Loss of a Friend -- Reflections -- Map of Alaska.
Summary Boots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to co-found Camp Denali, Alaska's first wilderness ecotourism lodge; helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state's first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction a.
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Subject Wood, Ginny.
Wood, Ginny.
Wood, Ginny -- Travel.
Travel.
Camp Denali -- History.
Camp Denali.
History.
Wood, Ginny.
Camp Denali.
Women conservationists -- Alaska -- Biography.
Women conservationists.
Alaska.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Conservationists -- Alaska -- Biography.
Conservationists.
Women adventurers -- Alaska -- Biography.
Women adventurers.
Alaska -- Description and travel.
Wilderness areas -- Alaska.
Wilderness areas.
Alaska -- Environmental conditions.
Environmental conditions.
Oral history -- Alaska.
Oral history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Brewster, Karen.
Other Form: Print version: 9781602231733 1602231737 (DLC) 2011033346
ISBN 1602231745 (electronic book)
9781602231740 (electronic book)
9781602231733 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1602231737 (paperback ; alkaline paper)