Essays by Michelle A. Gilders. Foreword by Governor Tony Knowles.
Photography by renowned nature and wildlife photographers.
Published in 1997 by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company. ISBN# 1-55868-309-7
Crossing Alaska whisks the reader along the corridor of the trans-Alaska pipeline, displaying dramatic landscapes, wildlife, and communities along its eight-hundred mile length from the Arctic Ocean to Prince William Sound. The pipeline has co-existed with the flora and fauna of this region for the past twenty years, delivering over eleven billion barrels of oil to the "lower 48" and providing almost 25 percent of the nation's domestically produced oil.
Construction, operation, and maintence of the pipeline is an ongoing engineering feat no other privately funded group has ever equaled, and it was done with the idea of minimizing environmental impact. The pipeline crosses three mountain ranges and more than eight hundred rivers and streams, traveling through some of the most awe-inspiring scenery ever found.
144 full-color photographs; 1 map; 3 essays; and, Extended photo captions.
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