| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 523 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oral biography series ; v. 5 |
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Oral biography series ; no. 5.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Wood, Ginny.
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Wood, Ginny -- Travel
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| SUBJECT |
Wood, Ginny fast |
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Camp Denali -- History
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Camp Denali fast |
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Women conservationists -- Alaska -- Biography
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Conservationists -- Alaska -- Biography
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Women adventurers -- Alaska -- Biography
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Wilderness areas -- Alaska.
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Oral history -- Alaska
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Conservationists
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Ecology
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Oral history
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Travel
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Wilderness areas
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Women adventurers
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Women conservationists
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| SUBJECT |
Alaska -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003144
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Alaska -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Alaska
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brewster, Karen
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| ISBN |
1602231745 |
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9781602231740 |
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