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Discovering Alaska

Additional authors: Erickson, Ken. | Heumann, Michael. | Heumann, Susie. | Beeman, Robin. | Whipple, Kirk. | Questar, Inc.
Series: Video visits. Travel collection Published by : Questar, ([New York, NY] :) Physical details: 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ISBN:1568557574; 9781568557571.
Subject(s): Travel. | Alaska -- Description and travel. | Nonfiction films. | Travelogues (Motion pictures) | Videodiscs.
Year: 2001
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Videos/Films Book Cart 917.98 Dis (Browse shelf) Available State Grant in Aid 107974

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Wildlife -- Inside Passage -- Juneau -- Anchorage -- Kenai -- The peninsula -- Brown bears -- Denali -- Fairbanks -- Oil pipeline -- "Gold fever" -- Eskimos -- DVD extras: Wild Alaska ; Cruising the Inside Passage ; Klondike-Yukon gold rush.

Photographed and edited by Michael Heumann ; music, Kirk Whipple [and others].

Narrated by Ken Erickson.

See the famous Inside Passage, including the Russian architecture at Sitka. Pay a visit to the Red Dog Saloon, where hordes of gold-seekers caroused during the great Gold Rush of 1898 at Juneau. Watch a canoe race and hot-air balloon ride in Anchorage. Visit "Alaskaland" in Fairbanks and take a ride on a vintage steam-engine train, followed by an outing on board a stern-wheel steamboat. Pan for gold in Nome, then view an Inupiat tribal ceremony and blanket toss in Kotzebue.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD.

107974