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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Ginny
Otros Autores: Brewster, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2012.
Colección:Oral biography series ; no. 5.
Temas:
Wood, Ginny.
Wood, Ginny > Travel.
Camp Denali > History.
Camp Denali.
Women conservationists > Alaska > Biography.
Conservationists > Alaska > Biography.
Women adventurers > Alaska > Biography.
Wilderness areas > Alaska.
Oral history > Alaska.
Femmes écologistes (Défenseuses de l'environnement) > Alaska > Biographies.
Écologistes (Défenseurs de l'environnement) > Alaska > Biographies.
Aventurières > Alaska > Biographies.
Réserves de la vie sauvage > Alaska.
Histoire orale > Alaska.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Conservationists.
Ecology.
Oral history.
Travel.
Wilderness areas.
Women adventurers.
Women conservationists.
Alaska > Description and travel.
Alaska > Environmental conditions.
Alaska > Descriptions et voyages.
Alaska > Conditions environnementales.
Alaska.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 523 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1602231745
9781602231740

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