Portrait of Alaska

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WaIking up to a tree in which a bald eagle sits—getting so close that you glimpse his bright yellov lg enough to lift a salmon from the water; strolling along an eight-hundred-mile beach, not jther soul; sunset at Sitka turning the ocean to molten gold; a male caribou feeling his oats gi' impeting bull an appraising glance; glaciers, triumphant dog mushers, totem carvers—these , ights typical of "the last frontier," brought to you by four of the most prominent and talente photographers of Alaska's varied landscape, wildlife, and inhabitants. The text is by Anchoragi writer Hilary Hilscher, a lifelong Alaskan and granddaughter of a Gold Rush prospector.
Hilscher knows Alaska intimately: its Eskimo artifacts from 6,000 b.c ; its mining past, its contemporary harvest of "black gold," oil; its independent, outspoken people; its vast timberlands and national forests; its berry patches and bears; how whalers in skin boats carny cell phones; how past and present intersect in every... Tovább

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WaIking up to a tree in which a bald eagle sits—getting so close that you glimpse his bright yellov lg enough to lift a salmon from the water; strolling along an eight-hundred-mile beach, not jther soul; sunset at Sitka turning the ocean to molten gold; a male caribou feeling his oats gi' impeting bull an appraising glance; glaciers, triumphant dog mushers, totem carvers—these , ights typical of "the last frontier," brought to you by four of the most prominent and talente photographers of Alaska's varied landscape, wildlife, and inhabitants. The text is by Anchoragi writer Hilary Hilscher, a lifelong Alaskan and granddaughter of a Gold Rush prospector.
Hilscher knows Alaska intimately: its Eskimo artifacts from 6,000 b.c ; its mining past, its contemporary harvest of "black gold," oil; its independent, outspoken people; its vast timberlands and national forests; its berry patches and bears; how whalers in skin boats carny cell phones; how past and present intersect in every small "town; its moose and mountains and magnificence. "This is the Great Land," she wrote. "The rest is Outside."
Nancy Simmerman is one of Alaska's pioneers of modern photography. Since statehood, she has taken thousands of striking portraits of Alaska and Alaskans, many of them appearing in national periodicals as well as in books.
Fred Hirschmann's images are distinguished by his willingness to fly, kayak, or hike to remote vantage points for new and unique camera angles. His work appears in the best-selling ALASKA, as well as in BUSH PILOTS OF ALASKA, ALASKA'S NATIONAL PARKS, and AMERICA.
i 1 " -*1* Kim Heacox wrote the text for and photographed Graphic Arts'new •
book, ALASKA'S INSIDE PASSAGE. Winner of numerous photography '.; - -awards, Heacox has gone on assignments many times for the National ' ¦' -J-Geographic Society, from the Arctic to the Everglades to Zimbabwe. His '
PORTRAIT OF ALASKA photos previously appeared in IDITAROD SPIRIT.
Writer and photographer Tom Walker lives in Denali National Park in a * log cabin he built himself. He spends long hours exposed to wind and weather, waiting to witness and capture the vagaries of animal behavior. He has photographed polar bears in Canada as well as giant turtles in . ' "r^F
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