Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms That Built Modern Alaska by Rettig, Molly
Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms That Built Modern Alaska by Rettig, Molly

Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms That Built Modern Alaska

Melting sea ice and rumbling volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys.These were the images that came...
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Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms That Built Modern Alaska by Rettig, Molly

Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms That Built Modern Alaska

$56.45
Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms That Built Modern Alaska by Rettig, Molly

Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms That Built Modern Alaska

$56.45
Author: Molly Rettig
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Melting sea ice and rumbling volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys.

These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to work as a reporter at the local newspaper. An avid environmentalist, she couldn't wait to explore the vast, untamed spaces that had largely been paved over on the east coast. But when her 72-year-old neighbor, Clutch, invites her on a tour of his gold mine--an 800-foot tunnel blasted into the side of his house-she begins to question many of her ideas about Alaska, and about herself.

In Finding True North, Rettig takes us on a gripping journey through Alaska's past that brings alive the state's magnificent country and its quirky, larger-than-life characters. She meets a trapper who harvests all she needs from the land, a bush pilot who taught himself how to fly, and an archaeologist who helped build an oil pipeline through pristine wilderness. While she learns how airplanes, mines, and oil fields have paved the way for newcomers like herself, she also stumbles upon a bigger question: what has this quest for Alaska's natural resources actually cost, and how much more is at stake?

This is a book about all the ways wild places teach us about ourselves. Rettig writes both playfully and honestly about how one place can be many things to many people--and how all of it can be true.



Author: Molly Rettig
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 03/15/2021
Pages: 201
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781602234437


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021

About the Author
Molly Rettig is communications director at the Cold Climate Housing Research Center. She moved to Fairbanks to work as a reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in 2010 and covered government, science, and education.

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