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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815645203321
• Autore: Wood Ginny
• 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.