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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jenkins, Peter, 1951-
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
Description:	xi, 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jenkins, Peter, -- 1951- -- Travel -- Alaska. Jenkins, Peter, -- 1951- Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Social life and customs. Indians of North America -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Travel. Alaska -- Description and travel. Alaska -- Social life and customs. Alaska -- History, Local. Alaska. Local history.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13030970

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	0312302894 9780312302894
Summary:	The author's chronicle of his year-long trek through Alaska introduces the people and places of the nation's "last frontier."

Table of Contents:

Dream in the daylight
Ted
At home with "The police log"
"Fly through that hole"
Tina
Bears on Dora Way
Can a glacier cry?
No road
The largest member of the congregation
Termination dust
Howls of glee
Maximum security
Bingo anger
On the way to Coldfoot
The winter trail
Life at the homestead
On the edge of the land-fast ice
Anything by cyber trash
Hobo night
XtraTuf
Unalakleet
Landing on a roof
Leaving Alaska
Epilogue: Jump out of that plane.