Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay

206 Pages·1999·11.29 MB·English

by  Philip L. Fradkin

W I L D E S T
A L A S K A
Also by Philip L. Fradkin
CALIFORNIA, THE GOLDEN COAST
A RIVER NO MORE
SAGEBRUSH COUNTRY
FALLOUT
WANDERINGS OF AN
ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALIST
THE SEVEN STATES OF CALIFORNIA
MAGNITUDE 8
W I L D E S T
PHILIP L. FRADKIN
University of California Press
Berteley Los Angeles London

THEF AIRWEATHER RANGE TOWERS ABOVE LITUYA BAY.
The dark, squat shape of Cenotaph Island appears in the foreground.
To the right, above the loneftshing boat, is the bare ridge that was swept
to the 1,740-foot level by thegiant wave of 1958. (Photo 0 1966, 1967
by Dave Bohn. First reproduced in Glacier Bay: The Land and
the Silence [San Francisco: Sierra Club, 19671.)
The paper uxii in rhi\ pahl~rrtlon1 s both arlil-ircc and totall!
chlonnz-hre ITC'FI. It nlrcts the m~n~n~rcuqumlr crncnt\ 01
ANSI~NISOZ jil 48-1984 (K ~i)ijji)J Jy)rnonr,~<rC)iP~zp~~i

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These are the true narne.i of the places-but why it
has been thought necessui-)!t o name them at all, i~m ow
thun either you or I can undei.stand. Do you hear any
thing? Do you jee any change in the wuter?