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Softcover. Copyright 2003. ISBN: 0-9724944-4-8. First Printing. Epicenter Press. 6" x 9" x 1". 2 Maps. 28 drawings. 31 B&W pictures. (From the back cover of the book) Stories of an Alaskan Conservationist. James W. Brooks packed several lifetimes of adventure into his sixty-five years in Alaska - working as a fisherman, trapper, musher, miner, wartime flyer, bush pilot, and whale biologist. In a beautifully written memoir, Brooks tells of being drawn to the North, where he lived off the land in the final years of the Territory of Alaska. Later, he served as commissioner of fish and game under two governors. Literally, Brooks lived and worked among the creatures of Alaska, from the walrus and seal habitats of the Bering Sea to the commercial fisheries in the Panhandle, and from the vast waterfowl nesting grounds of the Southwest river deltas to the harsh Arctic home of the polar bear. Brooks balanced politics and science in dealing with battles over wildlife management including controversial aerial wolf hunting intended to conserve moose populations that feed may two-legged creatures of Alaska. "This is waht dreams are made of - a teenager runs away to Alaska becoming a salmon fisherman, trapper, bush pilot, and internationally respected wildlife biologist. A super read!" Jim Rearden, best selling author of Arctic Bush Pilot. Table of Contents Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
1. Hobo Days
2. Growing Up in Detroit
3. Alaska Boy
4. A Desperate Move
5. High-liner
6. Gandy Dancer and Grease Monkey
7. An Idea Comes to Life
8. Into the Wilderness
9. Bush Winter
10. Fairbanks
11. Army Pilot
12. Romance and Other Adventures
13. The Eskimo Way
14. Medicine Man
15. Flying With the Birds
16. With the Walrus Hunters
17. Walrus Islands
18. Whale-catcher
19. The Hunt
20. Dynamite
21. Roar of the Lions
22. The 49th Star
23. I Become a Bureaucrat
24. On Thin Ice
25. Tightrope Walking
26. In the Zone
27. Bad Wolf, Good Wolf
28. Home
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