Move over, Emily Post and Miss Manners. Here comes Anchorage Daily News columnist Mike Doogan, Alaska's most outspoken journalist. With tongue in cheek, Doogan has written a code of conduct to help you survive in America's last frontier, where people are more interested in whether you belong to the NRA than the DAR. Learn how to be a proper guest: ""Always bring beer, never bring guns . . . if the host begins brandishing a shotgun, it's time to leave."" On communing with nature: ""When hiking into bear country, always take someone who runs slower than you do.
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Send this very funny book to all your friends. --Tom Bodett
Let witty Mike Doogan show you the real Alaska -- an adventure a lot more fun than staring at glaciers through the porthole of a cruise ship. --Mark Russell
Doogan's ratio of hits to the funny bone is high. --Snow Country magazine
Let witty Mike Doogan show you the real Alaska -- an adventure a lot more fun than staring at glaciers through the porthole of a cruise ship. --Mark Russell
Doogan's ratio of hits to the funny bone is high. --Snow Country magazine
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A third-generation Alaskan, Mike Doogan is a former columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, where for 15 years he made many of his fellow Alaskans hopping mad three times a week.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Warning! Not a real guide!,
By W. Jamison "William S. Jamison" (Eagle River, Ak United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Fashion Means Your Fur Hat Is Dead: A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska (Paperback)
When my wife and I first moved to Alaska in 1987 we wanted to find out what Alaskans were like so we could try to fit in. We looked around and found Mike Doogan's guide - plus all of his weekly articles giving advice on how to live like a real Alaskan. (The other guide we found was Jeff Lowenfells.) I took Mike's advice seriously! Now 16 years later I had a chance to listen to Mike in person and he said his newspaper column was a humor column! So now I have all this stuff in my driveway - so my house will look like a real Alaskan home - and what am I going to do with it all? So beware! Reading this book is not for those who want real advice. It is instead a book joking about some things some Alaskans do, but not how you should really try to live just to fit in. But if anyone reading this would like to buy some stuff for your driveway - please give me a call!
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Best information on how folks REALLY live in rural Alaska,
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This review is from: Fashion Means Your Fur Hat Is Dead: A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska (Paperback)
If you have ever gotten the chance to meet or visit with the folks from rural Alaska you will know these are facts of live. Told in a very humorous way. Good reading you can't put down. Great for folks that may never get there but want to know the facts of Alaska life!
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Funny book!,
By A. Brue "Black Unycorn" (Anchorage, AK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fashion Means Your Fur Hat Is Dead: A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska (Paperback)
The book is hilarious and gives a great perspective on what Alaskan ideas and perspectives are like, although it really applies more to the bush than to a cosmopolitan city (can I really say that without a snicker? No, but it's as close to it as what Alaska has) like Anchorage or maybe even Fairbanks now. He's talking about what Fairbanks and NorthPole were like 20-30 years ago. But overall still pertinent and extremely funny. I've actually bought and given away two of these books in an effort to help my friends and family understand what Alaska is really like and do so in an enjoyable way. What Patrick F. McManus is to camping in general is this guy on Alaska.
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When I was six or maybe seven, I asked my mother where new Alaskans came from. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Road Alaska, Rural Alaska, Southeast Alaska, Mother's Curse, Spenard Divorce New!
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When I was six or maybe seven, I asked my mother where new Alaskans came from. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Road Alaska, Rural Alaska, Southeast Alaska, Mother's Curse, Spenard Divorce New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- How to Speak Alaskan by Mike Doogan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Stairway to Heaven by Plato Papajohn on page 72
- Dawson City (Alaska Geographic) by Mike Doogan in Back Matter
- Coming into the Country by John McPhee on page 5
- City Smart: Anchorage by Donna Freedman on page 12
- Moose Dropping & Other Crimes Against Nature by Tom Brennan in Back Matter
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