Alaska-Yukon Place-names - Hardcover

Phillips, James W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295952598 ISBN 13: 9780295952598

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1973

Synopsis

Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author James W. Philips takes the vacationing tourist, historian, and armchair traveler though the most memorable places in the Alaska-Yukon region. Since the most popular routes north to Alaska and the Yukon are the Marine Highway and the Alaska Highway through Canada, the entries of Alaska-Yukon Place Names include ghost towns, islands, waterways, mountains, and glaciers in northern British Columbia. Whether more interested in the scenery, the historic past, or the fabulous yarns connected with the area, you will be delighted by the colorful towns of Alaska and the Yukon

About this title

About the Author:

James W. Phillips, a former newspaperman, is a free-lance writer whose article and stories have appeared in numerous regional and national magazines. He is coauthor of Sourdough Sky: The History of Bushpilots in Alaska, and the author of the regional bestseller, Washington State Place Names.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0295952598
• ISBN 13: 9780295952598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160