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Glacier Bay: Chapter 1 The Gem of Alaska's Inside Passage
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Volume: Handbook 123
Date:1983
Overview of Glacier Bay
People are attracted to Glacier Bay, not only for its spectacular
scenery in
and around the bay, but also for the whales and other wildlife, the
Fairweather Range, and the vast unspoiled coast. This book describes
both
the natural and human history of the Glacier Bay area.
Chapter 1 The Gem of Alaska's Inside Passage
Alaska's Glacier Bay confronts us with a mad jumble of paradoxes.
Attempts to describe it juxtapose references to thunderous booming
of ice and
overwhelming silence. The landscape rests both brashly new and bedrock
old,
at once eternal and transitory, ...
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