9781878788191 - Birder's Guide to Alaska von West, George Cornwallis (2 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Cover has wear, but pages good. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> A laska! The word alone brings visions of Bluethroats and Arctic Warblers in every bush, of tundra filled with the cries of courting sandpipers and cackling ptarmigan, of swarms of half-a-million alcids swirling around an offshore island, of lines of shearwaters and fulmars with a smattering of storm-petrels and albatrosses, and of one Asian stray after another. These visions can become a reality if you are in the right place at the right time. But Alaska is enormous. From Attu at the western end of the Aleutian Island chain to Ketchikan in southeast, Alaska stretches over 2.350 miles, equivalent to the distance from California to Florida. From its northernmost point at Barrow to Amatignak Island at the southernmost arc of the Aleutian chain is 1,390 miles, or equivalent to driving from Fargo, North Dakota, to Brownsville, Texas. Alaska's expansive and spectacular scenery includes several ranges of snow-capped mountains, each dissected with scores of active glaciers and culminating w.

Zustand: Very good.