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.Alaska: Images of the Country (Sierra Club Books Publication) by: John McPhee, Galen Rowell June 12, 1982 Galen Rowell was one of the great outdoor photographers and most of his books are full of spectacular pictures of mountain scenery. But if you are expecting a normal picture book about Alaska, this isn't it. Instead this is a look at a place that is full of ambiguity. The book is structured around John McPhee's book "Coming into the Country". In that book McPhee gives an insightful description of Alaska as a place, and its inhabitants. The Alaskans seem torn between preserving the wilderness and developing it and the extracts contained in this volume capture that spirit. For example, McPhee provides admiring character studies of a number of people who came to Alaska because they just didn't fit in back in the lower ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Alaska: Images of the Country (Sierra Club Books Publication) |
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Comments: 36 edge and corner wear,no writing in book,dust jacket worn and torn
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Comments: Ex-library w/ usual markings. Pages clean & unmarked. Binding tight. All items shipped within 2 business days and are guaranteed. Proceeds benefit the Pima Co. Public Library, serving the greater Tucson area.
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Comments: Black spine of dust jacket with whtie letters. Clean boards and pages. Tight binding. May have some shelf wear and rubbing on the edges and corners. Please no purchases of large books by international buyers.
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Comments: HB with different dustcover, c. 1981, 146 pages, no marks in text, presentation on front page, book in very good condition, dustcover has edge wear and diagonal crease on upper right corner,
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Comments: HB with different dustcover, c. 1981, 146 pages, no marks in text, presentation on front page, book in very good condition, dustcover has edge wear and diagonal crease on upper right corner,
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Comments: 1985 Promontory Books for Sierra Club; oversized hardcover with clean blue boards & white pages containing full-color photographs and text. No marks. Dust jacket bright & glossy with some edgewear; price-clipped.
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Comments: 1985 Promontory Books for Sierra Club; oversized hardcover with clean blue boards & white pages containing full-color photographs and text. No marks. Dust jacket bright & glossy with some edgewear; price-clipped.
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