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# Alaskan Travels: Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure

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			        		&#x201C;The best essayist of my generation.&#x201D; (John Updike)&#x201C;Hoagland has captured the restless adventuresomeness of our frontiersmen, and the riot of nature in its unspoiled glory. &#x201D; (John Irving)&#x201C;To read two pages of Hoagland at random is to know immediately that you are in the hands of a supremely tough-minded man and a man of perfect honesty.&#x201D; (Newsweek)&#x201C;One of the very best writers of his generation.&#x201D; (Saul Bellow)&#x201C;A writer born, a writer obsessed.&#x201D; (Alfred Kazin)&#x201C;Edward Hoagland is a strong, solid writer with a splendid feel for the intricacy, queerness and stubborn pertinacity of life. He is also, so far as i know, the best essayist working in our perishing republic.&#x201D; (Edward Abbey)&#x201C;Alaskan Travels is much more than a travel book. It is the chronicle of a love affair, with a powerful landscape and a powerful woman- a wonderful double portrait.&#x201D; (Paul Theroux)
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Edward Hoagland has written more than twenty books, including the travel memoirs&#xA0;Alaskan Travels and African Calliope, the essay collections Walking the Dead Diamond River and The Tugman&#x2019;s Passage, and the novels Cat Man and Seven Rivers West. He worked in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus while attending Harvard, and later traveled the world writing for a number of national magazines including Harper&#x2019;s and Esquire.&#xA0;He has received numerous prestigious literary awards, and taught at many American colleges and universities. He is a native New Yorker, who now divides his time between Martha&#x2019;s Vineyard and Burton, Vermont.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Much more than a travel journal.
            
*by E***R on May 30, 2015*

Alaskan Travels explores the remote regions where Eskimos, Indians, and loners from the lower 48 live. Hoagland writes of the millionaire real estate and oil moguls in Anchorage and elsewhere. It was interesting to learn of the living conditions of people who lived in far flung towns. These villages were plagued by illness, especially TB, suicide, spouse abuse, and alcoholism. Modern culture, conveniences, the federal and state government, and oil money influenced their lifestyle. Hoagland traveled throughout Alaska with Linda who was a nurse. Since she was employed by the state travelling with her opened otherwise shut doors.It is a fascinating journey that took place in the mid Eighties. Although somewhat dated, the book provides wonderful insight into the Alaska of today. It is well worth the read.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐ I really wanted to like this book
            
*by R***W on January 27, 2014*

I read Hoagland's Notes From the Century Before years ago, and I still consider it one of my favorite books. I've also visited Alaska 10 times, and have traveled throughout the state. I purchased this book with great expectations, hoping for the same experience I had with Notes. Unfortunately, I found it a difficult book to read. I enjoyed the content, since I'd been to some of the same places as Hoagland, and he's a keen observer of people. He does describe very well the disintegration of much Eskimo and Indian culture in Alaska and the disillusionment of many immigrants from the lower 48. It's also a good snapshot in time of the early 1980s in the state. And he's very good at remembering and passing on stories from his travels. But the writing turned out to be full of long, run-on sentences, awkward constructions, and local jargon, which slowed down my reading to the point where I was asking myself what a sentence was about, before I'd finished the sentence, or where a paragraph was going. Some sentences could have stood as entire paragraphs themselves. Some paragraphs cover 3 or more topics. I'm a slow, careful reader, anyway, and this style of writing made the book a chore to get through. I'm sure that a good editor could have made a number of improvements. In addition, there were some places in the book that read like a transcription of his notes from 30 years earlier (fortunately there weren't too many examples like this.)I also didn't like some of his generalizations about Alaskans or tourists. For example, his characterization of McKinley climbers at Talkeetna as "athletic trust-funders and remission men" doesn't ring true to my ears, since most of those I know are typical climbers with very little income or wealth. (I'm sure there are ones like he describes, and it is an interesting observation.) Also, I didn't enjoy reading so many intimate details of his relationship with his nurse friend. Some things are just better left unsaid.I do still consider his body of work to be excellent, at least what I've read of it. This book just didn't measure up to his standards, in my opinion. On the other hand, for someone who is a real Alaskaphile, and who is up to the task, there's a lot of good content and observation here.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is Edward Hoagland's look at Alaska about 30 years ...
            
*by J***L on March 19, 2015*

This is Edward Hoagland's look at Alaska about 30 years ago.  He spent an extended time traveling in the larger cities but most especially in the outlaying areas where the Native tribes still live.  He also talks about a few white people who have come to homestead or get away from lives in the lower 40 states.  He travels with a girlfriend who is a nurse to the people where they may only see a medical person two times a year.  You learn a lot about the people, the wildlife, dog sledding, and survival.
  

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