In darkest Alaska : travel and empire along the Inside Passage /

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Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, Robert (Robert Bruce)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Colección:Nature and culture in America.
Temas:
1800-1959
Tourism > Alaska > 19th century.
Tourism > Inside Passage > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Literature
Tourism
Travel
Alaska > Description and travel.
Inside Passage > Description and travel.
Alaska > History > 1867-1959.
Alaska > In literature.
Alaska > Descriptions et voyages.
Inside Passage > Descriptions et voyages.
Alaska > Histoire > 1867-1959.
Alaska > Dans la littérature.
Alaska
North America > Inside Passage
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Voyage to Brobdingnag
  • Continental drift
  • Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's
  • Scenic bonanza
  • Frontier commerce
  • Totem and taboo
  • Juneau's industrial sublime
  • Orogenous zones : glaciers and the geologies of empire
  • Inside Passage.

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