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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815645203321

Autore

Wood Ginny

Titolo

Boots, bikes, and bombers [[electronic resource] ] : adventures of Alaska conservationist Ginny Hill Wood / / edited by Karen Brewster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, c2012

ISBN

1-60223-174-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (537 p.)

Collana

Oral history series

Altri autori (Persone)

BrewsterKaren

Disciplina

639.9092

B

Soggetti

Women conservationists - Alaska

Conservationists - Alaska

Women adventurers - Alaska

Wilderness areas - Alaska

Oral history - Alaska

Alaska Description and travel

Alaska Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Childhood : The Foundation of an Adventurous Life -- Europe by Bicycle -- Flying and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots -- A Life-long Friendship : Meeting Celia Hunter -- A Summer Under Sail -- Alaska : The Early Years -- Returning to Europe -- Exploring Katmai National Park -- Finding a Place to Call Home -- Establishing Camp Denali : Alaska's First Wilderness Camp -- Driving the Denali Park Road -- Exploring Mount McKinley's Backcountry -- Camp Denali Staff and Friends -- Flying Search and Rescue -- Selling Camp Denali -- Preserving Alaska -- Tundra Treks : Guiding Wilderness Trips -- Breaking Trail -- Traveling the Globe -- The Loss of a Friend -- Reflections -- Map of Alaska.

Sommario/riassunto

Boots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to co-found Camp



Denali, Alaska's first wilderness ecotourism lodge; helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state's first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction a.