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Beyond the borders of the "lower forty-eight" lies America's ultimate wilderness, Alaska. The Big Land arouses dreams of terrifying cold, of snowy mountains, caribou, salmon, Eskimos, bears, gold and vast, million-acre tracts of virgin country. Now, come into the country with a justly celebrated guide, John McPhee. Take a remarkable journey with him by kayak down an arctic river, fish with him, explore the back country with him, help search for the site of a new state capital, join in the daily events of Eagle, a bush community of one hundred souls. Alaska has been intriguing folk for centuries. John McPhee gives it to us in all its the pioneers, the politicians, the new frontiersmen. The ordinary people with extraordinary dreams. McPhee leaves us with images we will never forget.