Research Catalog

Title

South to Alaska : from the heartland of America to the heart of a dream / Nancy Owens Barnes.

Author

Owens Barnes, Nancy, 1949-

Publication

Villa Park, IL : WigWam Pub., c2007.

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Holdings

Details

Description

187 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Series Statement

A new leaf book

Subject

• Owens, Melvin, -2006 > Travel
• Bodies of water > United States > History > 20th century
• Bodies of water > Central America > History > 20th century
• Bodies of water > Alaska > History > 20th century
• Boats and boating > United States > History > 20th century
• Boats and boating > Central America > History > 20th century
• Boats and boating > Alaska > History > 20th century
• United States > Description and travel
• Central America > Description and travel
• Alaska > Description and travel

Genre/Form

History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue : dawn of a dream -- A watery highway : Hartford to the Mississippi River -- False start : Wilburton to Seabrook -- Warm winter : Mississippi River to Galveston -- Troubled waters : Galveston to Port Isabel -- The train from Tampico : Galveston to Tampico -- New crew : Galveston -- A luminous crossing : Galveston to Progreso -- Reefs and roller coasters : Progreso to Belize City -- Shades of green : Belize City to Colon -- Dollar on a dime : The Panama Canal -- A Pacific primer : Balboa to Puntarenas -- Phones and feathered friends : Puntarenas to Manzanillo -- The wind and the wild : Manzanillo to San Diego -- Danger and a baby duck : San Diego to Monterey -- Fools rush inland : Monterey to Bellingham -- A bath and a bottle of pop : Bellingham to Ketchikan -- Red dog to pretty lady : Ketchikan -- The tide of time : Pennock Island -- Epilogue : a dream done.

ISBN

9781930076068 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007029169

OCLC

162118807

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library