{"product_id":"alaskan-travels-edward-hoagland-9781611458695","title":"Alaskan Travels: Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure","description":"Thirty years ago, celebrated American writer Edward Hoagland, in his early fifties and already with a dozen acclaimed books under his belt, had a choice: a midlife crisis or a midlife adventure. He chose the adventure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePencil and notebook at the ready, Hoagland set out to explore and write about one of the last truly wild territories remaining on the face of the earth: Alaska. From the Arctic Ocean to the Kenai Peninsula, the backstreet bars of Anchorage to the Yukon River, Hoagland traveled the \"real\" Alaska from top to bottom. Here he documents not only the flora and fauna of America's last frontier, but also the extraordinary people living on the fringe. On his journey, he chronicles the lives of an astonishing and unforgettable array of prospectors, trappers, millionaire freebooters, drifters, oilmen, Eskimos, Indians, and a remarkably kind and capable frontier nurse named Linda. In his foreword, novelist Howard Frank Mosher describes Edward Hoagland's memoir as \"the best book ever written about America's last best place.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the tradition of Twain's \u003ci\u003eLife on the Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e and Jonathan Rabin's \u003ci\u003eOld Glory\u003c\/i\u003e, with a beautiful love story at its heart, this is an American masterpiece from a writer hailed by the Washington Post as \"the Thoreau of our times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Hoagland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611458692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611458695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Edward Hoagland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938785198335,"sku":"9781611458695","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d2665488-6b6b-4ffa-9aa7-e502ea6297de.jpg?v=1681437703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alaskan-travels-edward-hoagland-9781611458695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}