Accidental Adventures: Alaska: True Tales of Ordinary People Facing Danger in the Wilderness

by Chris Lundgren

Book Overview

America's fascination with Alaska began at the turn of the last century, when Jack London and John Muir captivated readers with their fiction and nonfiction stories--and continues today with such popular books as Into the Wild and the explosion of Alaska reality TV shows. In such a giant and forbidding place, people lose their way. They hurt themselves. Their equipment fails. They clash with wildlife. And in Alaska, one stroke of bad luck--one small...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493044753
• ISBN13: 9781493044757
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"