In Darkest Alaska : : Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage /

In Darkest Alaska : : Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage / / Robert Campbell.

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Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Campbell, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2008
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Nature and Culture in America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 39 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue. Voyage to Brobdingnag
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Continental Drift
  • Chapter Two. Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's
  • Chapter Three. Scenic Bonanza
  • Chapter Four. Frontier Commerce
  • Chapter Five. Totem and Taboo
  • Chapter Six. Juneau's Industrial Sublime
  • Chapter Seven. Orogenous Zones
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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