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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165257003321

Autore

Hough Emerson

Titolo

The Young Alaskans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland : , : Floating Press, The, , 2008

©2017

ISBN

1-77667-655-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 pages)

Disciplina

823.8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title -- Contents -- I - At Home in Alaska -- II - Afloat on the Pacific -- III - The Journey to the North -- IV - Lost in the Fog -- V - The Missing Dory -- VI - Adrift on the Ocean -- VII - The Hut on the Beach -- VIII - The Salmon Run -- IX - The Big Bear of Kadiak -- X - The Savage Refugee -- XI - A Troublesome Prisoner -- XII - Ways of the Wilderness -- XIII - Making a Living -- XIV - The Surprise -- XV - The Whale-Hunt -- XVI - The Missing Prisoner -- XVII - The Aleut Boy -- XVIII - Unwelcome Visitors -- XIX - Hope Deferred -- XX - The Silver-Gray Fox -- XXI - An Aleut Goose-Hunt -- XXII - Sport with the Salmon -- XXIII - Among the Eagles -- XXIV - An Adventure on the Gull Rocks -- XXV - Cripples' Castle -- XXVI - The Journey and the Storm -- XXVII - The Man-Hunt -- XXVIII - A Hunt for Sea-Otter -- XXIX - Uncertainty -- XXX - "Blown Out to Sea! -- XXXI - The Search-Party -- XXXII - The Deserted Camp -- XXXIII - Saved!.

Sommario/riassunto

In this exciting action-adventure novel for younger readers, a group of three young friends who have grown up in a booming but small oil town in Alaska explore the starkly beautiful territory and get up close and personal with its wonders -- and its dangers.