Going To Extremes
by McGinniss, Joe, Jr.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-08-01
Publisher(s): Epicenter Pr
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Summary
This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that captures a portrait frozen in time of a raw state in turmoil during the oil boom. McGinnis went north to find out if there was anything left of the "last frontier." He found "mind-bending contradictions," as a previous publisher put it--greed, waste, addictions, and racism, among other things, that contrasted with an awesome untamed natural beauty and an honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.
Author Biography
Joe McGinniss is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist who has published eleven books. He lives in Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Winter | |
| The Ferry | p. 3 |
| The Road | p. 23 |
| Anchorage | p. 32 |
| The First Day North | p. 42 |
| Prudhoe Bay | p. 51 |
| Barrow | p. 60 |
| Nome | p. 91 |
| The Village | p. 109 |
| Juneau | p. 126 |
| Crescent Lake | p. 136 |
| Summer | |
| Bethel | p. 151 |
| The Road South | p. 159 |
| The Road North | p. 181 |
| Kahiltna Glacier | p. 200 |
| Valdez | p. 212 |
| Anchorage | p. 223 |
| Bettles | p. 237 |
| The Brooks Range | p. 253 |
| About the Author | p. 305 |
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