Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Keenan, Brian

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9780385603065: Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey [Lingua Inglese]

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ISBN 10: 0385603061 ISBN 13: 9780385603065

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2004

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Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's life ever since.A short visit to Fairbanks several years ago was enough to seal his connection with the place and he resolved to return. Last year he did so with a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed with his own love of the desolate and barren places of the world. In the course of a journey that takes him through four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, he discovers a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure...

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Praise for An Evil Cradling:
“A moving and remarkable triumph.”
—Independent on Sunday

Praise for Between Extremes:
“One of the funniest and most moving testaments to friendship that one is likely to read”
—Sunday Times

“Such an absorbing subject, so deeply and warmly expressed”
—Daily Telegraph

“They take us every step of the way with a wonderfully infectious joie de vivre”
—Independent on Sunday
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Brian Keenan was born in Belfast in 1950.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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