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Brian Keenan - Four Quarters Of Light: An Alaskan Journey - 9780552999731 - KTK0096910
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Four Quarters Of Light: An Alaskan Journey

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Description for Four Quarters Of Light: An Alaskan Journey Paperback. Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy. With a head full of questions about its landscape and a heart informed by his love of desolate and barren places, he sets out for Alaska, to discover its four geographical quarters, from snowmelt to snowfall. He ultimately finds that to make Alaska a home, one must surrender to the land. Num Pages: 448 pages, col. Illustrations, 1 map, col. ports. BIC Classification: 1MTN; BTP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 300. Some shelf wear,

Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy while reading Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. With a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed by his love of desolate and barren places, Brian Keenan sets out for Alaska to discover its four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, and en route, finds a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure...
From dog-mushing on a frozen lake beneath the whirling colours of the aurora borealis to camping in a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552999731
SKU
KTK0096910
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Brian Keenan
Brian Keenan is a writer and poet. An Evil Cradling, the story of his four years' captivity in Beirut, is recognized as a non-fiction classic. He is also the author of a travel book, Between Extremes, with John McCarthy, and a novel, Turlough.

Reviews for Four Quarters Of Light: An Alaskan Journey
'A superb travel book...deeply spiritual'
Irish Independent
'An excellent travelogue...full of one-off characters vividly brought to life...an engaging and articulate book that does much to illuminate America's Last Frontier'
Daily Telegraph
'Wonderfully evocative and at times quite extraordinarily moving. There are many moments you carry with you long after you've turned the last page. Magic'
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Goodreads reviews for Four Quarters Of Light: An Alaskan Journey


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