The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation and the Frontier [Hardcover]

Peter A. Coates (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1991

This volume chronicles the evolution of conservationist concern over Alaska since America acquired it. Coates reviews the developments that aroused concern, investigates the changes in the nature and strength of the concern, and assesses the debates over these issues.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: Lehigh Univ Pr (May 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934223106
• ISBN-13: 978-0934223102
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,322,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is not just about the Pipeline!, September 3, 2008

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Marion Delgado (Eugene OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier (Paperback)

I met Peter when he was writing this and thought he was exaggerating some of his stories about the pipeline and the early "boomer" years of Alaska (and I'm a Fairbanksan!). It ended up being one of the best journalistic endeavors I've been privileged to witness. A lot of what went into Dan O'Neil's "The Firecracker Boys" started here.

It's amazingly readable, especially for something meant to be part of the academic record. For that reason, it's had no promotion to speak of. It's often-cited, but not at all dry. I know many of the people mentioned, and some of my relatives worked on the pipeline, and everything he says is the real deal.

To quote the late UAF president and Fairbanks mayor William Ransom Wood out of context, if you don't read Peter's book, you are "anti-God, anti-mind, and anti-man!"