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  <title><![CDATA[Going to Extremes]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joe McGinniss]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this when i went to alaska on vacation. the alaska mcginniss describes is pretty different from the alaska of today, but he's a very engaging writer, and his stories are highly entertaining.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 16:04:57 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part travel diary, history, environmentalism, and current events in Alaska.  Focuses a lot on the natural beauty and his adventures from almost every region of the state (even made it up to Barrow). It is more like an anthropological study of “Alaskans.”  McGinniss obviously does have a slant ag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11180843">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 30 20:46:12 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 30 20:46:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, having lived in AK from 1961 to 1997.  Good writing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story!  Inspired both of my travels to Alaska.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books of all time, one of the few I keep. Except I have to keep buying new copies because I lend it to people and they never give it back..<br/>Travel around Alaska - I must say a lot of it doesn't make me really want to go there - the account of the evening spent in Barro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37172332">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1983</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason, I remember liking this book more than all the others I read in preparation for a trip to Alaska that I took in 1983. It really got me in the mood and gave me a good sense of the the place, even though I was going to only a small corner of the state. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably dated but one of the best discussions of living in Alaska that I have found, squelching whatever desires I had to live there....]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was full of interesting stuff, but I didn't really like the author/narrator.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really liked it!!]]></body>
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