Boots, bikes, and bombers [[electronic resource] ] : adventures of Alaska conservationist Ginny Hill Wood / / edited by Karen Brewster
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Wood Ginny
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| Titolo: |
Boots, bikes, and bombers [[electronic resource] ] : adventures of Alaska conservationist Ginny Hill Wood / / edited by Karen Brewster
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| 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 | |
| Altri autori: |
BrewsterKaren
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-60223-174-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779103403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Oral history series.