Boots, Bikes, and Bombers : Adventures of Alaska Conservationist Ginny Hill Wood /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wood, Ginny
Autres auteurs: Brewster, Karen
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Wood, Ginny.
Wood, Ginny > Travel.
Camp Denali.
Camp Denali > History.
Women conservationists.
Women adventurers.
Wilderness areas.
Travel.
Oral history.
Ecology.
Conservationists.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Histoire orale > Alaska.
Reserves de la vie sauvage > Alaska.
Aventurieres > Alaska > Biographies.
Écologistes (Defenseurs de l'environnement) > Alaska > Biographies.
Femmes ecologistes (Defenseuses de l'environnement) > Alaska > Biographies.
Oral history > Alaska.
Wilderness areas > Alaska.
Women adventurers > Alaska > Biography.
Conservationists > Alaska > Biography.
Women conservationists > Alaska > Biography.
Alaska.
Alaska > Conditions environnementales.
Alaska > Descriptions et voyages.
Alaska > Environmental conditions.
Alaska > Description and travel.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource: illustrations
ISBN:9781602231740

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