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"This volume will provide a bird's eye view of Alaska or recall memories of earlier trips or residence. For many it will be a source of information about people, places, activities, natural features and existing conditions. Pictures are arranged to take the reader from Ketchikan in Southeastern Alaska along the entire coastal area of the Gulf, Aleutians, Bering and Arctic seas -- then southweard to Fairbanks and finally to the Cook Inlet port city of Anchorage." After two pages of "Background" text, this book consists of more than 100 full-page photographs, from private and government sources. Photos are b&w or two-tone. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 113 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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Chapters: Cook Inlet, Eagle River, Alaska, Fire Island (Anchorage, Alaska), Eklutna River, Anchorage Metropolitan Area, Chugach State Park, Eklutna, Alaska, Government Hill, Sand Lake, Girdwood, Alaska, Knik Glacier, Spenard, Alaska, Mount Pow/mia, Flattop Mountain (Anchorage, Alaska), Eagle Peak, Point Woronzof Park, Kincaid Park, List of Neighborhoods of Anchorage, Alaska, Downtown, Bootleggers Cove, Portage Glacier, Polar Bear Peak, Ptarmigan Peak, Chugiak, Alaska, Knik River, Goose Lake, Alaska Botanical Garden, Harriman Glacier, Angelus Memorial Park, Anchorage Memorial Park, Mount Palmer, Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, Ship Creek, Delaney Park Strip. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 90. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cook Inlet stretches 180 miles (290 km) from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost surrounding Anchorage. The watershed covers about 100,000 km² of southern Alaska, east of the Aleutian Range and south of the Alaska Range, receiving water from its tributaries the Knik River, the Little Susitna River, and the Susitna and Matanuska rivers. The watershed includes the drainage areas of Mount McKinley. Within the watershed there are several national parks and the active volcano Mount Redoubt, along with three other historically active volcanoes. Cook Inlet provides navigable access to the port of Anchorage at the northern end, and to the smaller Homer port further south. Approximately 400,000 people live within the Cook Inlet watershed. Before the growth of Anchorage, Knik was the destination for most marine traffic in upper Cook Inlet. The Cook Inlet region contains active volcanoes, including Augustine Volcano and Mount Redoubt. Volcanic eruptions in the region have...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=413559 ... Read more

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Hardcover book that discusses the landscape and physical evolution of Alaska's land forms. Book includes numerous maps; many of which fold out. Book includes an index. ... Read more

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Includes: diagrams, maps, index, bibliography. Includes all associated maps in separate pouch inside rear cover. ... Read more

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Color and black and white photographic illustrations, maps. 24.5 cm x 30.5 cm. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 142 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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Get ready for a trip to the biggest state of all. With the help of your Alaska bush pilot, you will travel from the Inside Passage north to the Artic Circle. Yoou will see tall totem poles, hugh glaciers, and the highest mountain in North America. You will alos find puzzle after puzzle. Solve them all to learn thre things (Who? What? Where?) ... Read more

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Learn how interesting and delicious the wild harvest of Alaska, western Canada, and the Northwest can be in this significant illustrated volume on 147 wild plants. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (13)

WAY OVERPRICED
its a absolutely great book. A friend of mine has it , and the price is imprinted on the cover. $35.99
NOT $135.00, or $95.00 "on sale" YOUR BETTER OFF GETTING IT AT YOU LOCAL BOOKSTORE!!!!!!

Useful Feature: Laid Out by Habitat
While I did not read every word of this interesting and well written manual, I did end up reading a lot of it. I like the way it is laid out, by habitat. This was an especially attractive feature because most of the plants that I have been falling in love with on my paddling trips are all in one place in this book.The details (there is usually some good depth to the writing) are charming and useful and drawn from several first nation's contacts, Alaskan residents, and most interestingly the author's own experience and experiments with cooking and eating many of the plants.

While the focus of the book appears on first blush to be Alaska, in fact most of the plants listed are common to my area (Vancouver Island BC) and there were only one or two that I had not heard of.

Occasionally the information is tantalizing because of it's gaps. I found myself thinking, "OK, so you eat the flower -- so is that just the petals or the whole thing?" and similar questions which may not have occurred to the writer who is obviously very familiar with the material and who regularly gathers wild plants for food. A little more precision on the culinary aspects of the book would have pushed it from a good guide to an outstanding one.

If you like plant identification and the history, lore, and practical uses of local plants, this guide will not disappoint.

Sets the standard in books about wild edibles of the northwest
I read far enough in this book to know that I need to study it, learn it, memorize it.

Schofield's book is a great addition to any apocalypse-preparedness library. It covers edible species of plants that grow in the wild (and in urban areas).

Discovering Wild Plants describes how to find edibles, when to harvest them, how to prepare them, and what they'll do for you in terms of nutrition, wellness, and healing.

This book is the standard in wild edibles if you live in Washington state, and it's required reading for students of Alderleaf Wilderness College ([...]).

It's a shame that this book is out of print. Count yourself lucky if you manage to snag a reasonably-priced used copy. I'm still looking for mine, and borrowing constantly from the library in the meantime.

Need to Have for Remote Alaska Cabin
This book is very informative and has already come in very handy for a remote location in Alaska where fresh quality commercial vegetables are hard to come by. Now, we're able to substitute fresh quality wild plants for wilted commercial produce.

Terrific!
Living in Alaska, I must say this is one of the finest books out there to help not only identify but work with wild plants in so many ways.The photos are excellent, the descriptions thorough and elaborate, the only negative is that it is too short, and yet too large to take out in the field!GREAT book, highly recommend. ... Read more