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Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska

Posted By: arundhati
Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska

Molly Rettig, "Finding True North: First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska"
English | ISBN: 1602234434 | 2021 | 201 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Melting sea ice and rumbling volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys.
These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to work as a reporter at the local newspaper. An avid environmentalist, she couldn’t wait to explore the vast, untamed spaces that had largely been paved over on the east coast. But when her 72-year-old neighbor, Clutch, invites her on a tour of his gold mine—an 800-foot tunnel blasted into the side of his house–she begins to question many of her ideas about Alaska, and about herself.
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