Alaska Light: Ideas and Images from a Northern Land

By Kim Heacox

Book Overview

"Alaska Light," like Alaska itself, is rich with extremes. From the Arctic Slope to the Inside Passage, from glaciers and grizzlies to sled dogs and caribou dreams, "Alaska Light" paints a mosaic of landscapes and wildlife. Five essays are complemented by 28 story photo captions about Alaska's geography, wildlife, and people while the back pages are devoted to a timetable of Alaskan history. More than a pretty picture book, it has heart, humor and beauty that honor the best we can do for Alaska, and Alaska for us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944197558
• ISBN13: 9780944197554
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.0" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Breathlessly beautiful

That's Alaska - simply beautiful. This photographer did an excellent job on this book. You'll love it.

Photography as Poetry

I saw this book alongside more than fifty kindred at the Denali Visitor Center. We chose this for our table display book because it alone showed Alaska as the word itself defines - "The Great Land." This is the book Robert Service would have chosen to illustrate his poetry about "the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder...the beauty that thrills me with wonder, it's the stillness that fills me with peace."If you can't go, you are the poorer for it, but this book will enrich your eyes and your spirit.Lee in Tucson