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



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Autore: Wood Ginny Visualizza persona
Titolo: Boots, bikes, and bombers [[electronic resource] ] : adventures of Alaska conservationist Ginny Hill Wood / / edited by Karen Brewster Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (537 p.)
Disciplina: 639.9092
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Soggetto topico: Women conservationists - Alaska
Conservationists - Alaska
Women adventurers - Alaska
Wilderness areas - Alaska
Oral history - Alaska
Soggetto geografico: Alaska Description and travel
Alaska Environmental conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: BrewsterKaren  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Boots, bikes, and bombers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-60223-174-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452997803321
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Serie: Oral history series.