Chasing Alaska - A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now

Informationen zum Autor C. B. Bernard has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine and public radio journalist, senior copywriter at an advertising agency, and marketing and communications specialist. He has been a lecturer at the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Writers Conference, a featured writer at the Boston Fiction Festival, and a featured speaker at the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Spring Speakers Series. The Alaska Press Club awarded his series on the oyster farms of Kachemak Bay, and Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift judged his column about life in Alaska as best in the state. The author of a travel guide to New England bike trails, he has also written extensively for Alaskan Southeaster, Alaska Business Monthly, Pacific Fishing, and Professional Mariner magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Klappentext Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts ever gathered, giving his name to landmarks and even a now-extinct species of wolf. C. B. chased the legacy of this explorer and hunter up the family tree, tracking his correspondence, locating artifacts donated to museums, and finding his journals at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

Product details

• Authors: C B Bernard, C. B. Bernard, Bernard C. B.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2013
• EAN: 9780762778461
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-7846-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; NATURE / Essays, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Adventure holidays, TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), natural history, Travel & holiday, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Travel guides: adventure holidays, Alaska;PACIFIC;WEST