Alaska Science Nuggets


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Compilation of 400 of the approximately 520 articles written for the Alaska Science Forum, a weekly series of short columns discussing facts about the north. Topics include auroras, astronomy, weather, water and ice, the sea, volcanoes, earthquakes, tectonics, northern plants and animals, history and living in the north.




Alaska Science Policy


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Alaska Nuggets


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Nome Nuggets


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Excerpt from Nome Nuggets: Some of the Experiences of a Party of Gold Seekers in Northwestern Alaska in 1900 Gold, gold, gold, gold, Bright and yellow, hard and cold; Molten, graven, hammered, rolled, Heavy to get, and light to hold; Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled. - Thomas Hood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Science in Alaska; Selected Papers of the Alaskan Science Conference of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, Nov.9-11, 1950


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Alaska Science Forum


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Science in Alaska


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Caught in the Sluice


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"Caught in the Sluice" is a lively collection of some of the fictional but accurate adventures, heartbreaking to hilarious, that have befallen the men and women who have worked the gold-bearing gravels of Alaska's Interior region. Moose John strides daydreaming through the first pages in this collection of mining tales, followed by Wilfred Winchester Wilkensfield III, who discovers an unexpected prehistoric hazard while mining for gold in permafrost. The Olgilvie Gold Fibulator creates bonanzas for miners and Shakespearean actors alike, Double-Dose Dobson demonstrates that he can teach his sons a thing or two even from the grave, and an implacable little lady has a showdown with a gigantic dredge. Davis, a miner and geophysicist, takes his lifetime of experience in mining and the North and spins a few lively yarns around the workings of the sluicebox and the human heart.




The Alaska Almanac


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Those looking for facts about Alaska turn to Alaska's best known and trusted fact book, The Alaska Alamanc. This affordable, best‐selling guide is filled with accurate, timely facts on the geography, history, economy, employment, recreation, climate, and peoples of this large and diverse state.