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Thirty years ago, celebrated American writer Edward Hoagland, in his early on fifties and already with a dozen acclaimed catalogs under his belt, got a choice: a midlife turmoil or a midlife excursion. He find the excursion. Pencil and notebook at the ready, Hoagland set out to explore and reveal one of the previous truly wild territories remaining on the facial skin of the planet earth: Alaska. From Arctic Sea to the Kenai Peninsula, the backstreet pubs of Anchorage to the Yukon River, Hoagland traveled the "real" Alaska throughout. Here he documents not only the nature of America's previous frontier, but also the incredible people living on the fringe. On his voyage he chronicles the lives of any astonishing and remarkable array of prospectors, trappers, millionaire freebooters, drifters, oilmen, Eskimos, Indians, and an amazingly kind and in a position frontier nurse known as Linda. In his foreword, novelist Howard Frank Mosher explains Edward Hoagland's memoir as "the best publication ever written about America's previous best place." Inside the traditions of Twain's Life on the Mississippi and Jonathan Rabin's Old Glory, with a beautiful love report at its center, this is an American masterpiece from a writer hailed by the Washington Post as "the Thoreau of the times."
