Going to Extremes Paperback - 2010
by McGinniss, Joe
- Used
Description
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Details
- Title Going to Extremes
- Author McGinniss, Joe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Fourth Edition w
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 99
- Language ENG
- Publisher Epicenter Press, Incorporated
- Date 2010-08-01
- Features Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 15548006-6
- ISBN 9781935347033 / 1935347039
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.56 x 0.77 in (21.39 x 14.12 x 1.96 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Library of Congress subjects Alaska - Description and travel, McGinniss, Joe - Travel - Alaska
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011381834
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.8
From the rear cover
When construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline created an oil boom in the late 1970s, journalist Joe McGinniss headed north to find out what if anything was left of the "last frontier." He discovered, as one reader put it, "mind-bending contradictions" - greed, waste, addictions, and racism, all of which contrasted with the vast, untamed natural beauty and the honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.
McGinniss looked at the underbelly of Alaska's boom culture. He tells a sometimes shocking, often moving story of turmoil through the perspectives of a lively assortment of bush pilots, boomers, park rangers, bartendesr, teachers, journalists, waitresses, politicians, Alaskan Natives, and an advancing legion of outsiders looking to get rich quick. "Going to Extremes" is an entertaining yet historically important book that stands as a journalistic time capsule from a time three decades ago when overwhelming changes were sweeping over Alaska.
