Portrait of the Panama Canal
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Portrait of the Panama Canal by W Friar
As Alaska's Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find purpose in traditional values and practices that have sustained their cultures for millennia. In stirring words and spectacular photos, Alaska Native Ways: What the Elders Have Taught Us pays tribute to the first Alaskans and the ancient values they consider paramount to their survival.Renewed pride has emerged across Alaska as Natives, both young and old, proclaim and celebrate their connections to their ancestry, ties that will define their identity in a new century.
William Friar grew up in Panama near the banks of the Panama Canal. This is his third Panama-related book; he also authored an ecotourist guidebook, Adventures in Nature: Panama. and a photo-essay book, Portrait of the Panama Canal.
Bill began his writing career as a stringer for the metro desk of the New York Times, where he found that covering stabbings, shootings, blizzards, and hockey parades was surprisingly good training for travel writing. He has worked as a rock-music critic, a tech-news editor at CNET, a human biology instructor, a writing coach, a fundraiser for a medical foundation, a software-manual author, and a reporter for three daily newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bill's work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, Neuen Zurcher Zeitung, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, and Houston Chronicle, among other publications. His travels have taken him to more than 60 countries on five continents, including a year stint in India doing international development work.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Bill also holds an M.A. in English and American Literature from Stanford and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco.
Bill began his writing career as a stringer for the metro desk of the New York Times, where he found that covering stabbings, shootings, blizzards, and hockey parades was surprisingly good training for travel writing. He has worked as a rock-music critic, a tech-news editor at CNET, a human biology instructor, a writing coach, a fundraiser for a medical foundation, a software-manual author, and a reporter for three daily newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bill's work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, Neuen Zurcher Zeitung, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, and Houston Chronicle, among other publications. His travels have taken him to more than 60 countries on five continents, including a year stint in India doing international development work.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Bill also holds an M.A. in English and American Literature from Stanford and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781558684775 |
| ISBN 10 | 1558684778 |
| Title | Portrait of the Panama Canal |
| Author | W Friar |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1999-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |