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Alaska bound : a life of travels and adventure in the Far North Cover Image Book Book

Alaska bound : a life of travels and adventure in the Far North / Michael P. Dixon.

Dixon, Michael P., 1950- (Author).

Summary:

Michael Dixon has spent years kayaking, hiking, camping, dog mushing, traveling, sailing, homesteading, climbing, and working while exploring the Great Land and the Last Frontier. Here is his story as told through articles that he wrote and published about his adventures.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0963998102
  • ISBN: 9780963998101
  • Physical Description: vi, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Douglas, Alaska : Dixon Pbk. Co., ©1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
"In the tracks of Jack: a bibliography of Jack London's year in the Yukon and Alaska (1897-1898) ": pages 144-150.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-159) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Fairy tale (1987) -- Alaska bound, part 1 (1973) -- Alaska bound, part 2 (1974) -- North to Alaska (1974) -- Tenakee Springs: the once and future town (1975) -- Demise of "give'm hell" Bell (1976) -- Homesteading in Alaska: the nightmare lives on (1974-84) -- Lost in law school (1978) -- Trail (1979) -- Bay (1980) -- September on the Yukon (1980) -- Engine room (1981) -- Alsek-Mount Blackadar Expedition (1983) -- Great alone (1985) -- Dempster Highway (1986) -- Homesteading in Alaska: the dream lives on (1987) -- My flight from the great Cyclops (1987) -- Fine art of jumping off cliffs, or anything else for that matter (1988) -- Paradise re-visited: kayaking the San Juan Islands (1988) -- Kayaking north of Juneau (1989) -- Kayaking with the gods (1990) -- Epilogue (1995).

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Dixon, Michael P., 1950-
Outdoor life > Alaska.
Adventure and adventurers > Alaska > Biography.
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Outdoor life.
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Alaska > Biography.
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Genre: Biographies.

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