Moving to Alaska

A Father moves with his son to Alaska Told by the son

by Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate


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Softcover
£31.95
Hardcover
£48.95
Softcover
£31.95

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 16/10/2024

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 600
ISBN : 9798823032421
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 600
ISBN : 9798823032414

About the Book

Moving to Alaska is a novel which is told by the hero of the novel, Ritchie Jenkins the Younger, in moments of reminiscing his travels with his father to Alaska and then alone back to Vermont. Thereafter, there are repeated travels back and forth between Vermont and Alaska. The Alaskan territory is differently expressed by Ritchie Jenkins the Younger than by his father Ritchie Jenkins the Elder, who has an intense love of the land. The focus is initially on Ritchie Jenkins the Younger’s total dislike of Alaska and gradually his liking of the land until he is completely in love with it. Acknowledgment is given to bookstores or book-selling establishments—those in Juneau and in Anchorage, Alaska, and in Carcross, Yukon Territory—and to the people met along the author’s research during her four separate trips to Alaska. The research was vast and a list of books, pamphlets, and others is given at the end of the novel. The story takes place during the turn of the nineteenth century to the twentieth century and therewith care had to be taken that no modern innovations or


About the Author

The author was born in Kitale in British East Africa, now Kenya, and received her education in various European countries, such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and Switzerland, and in Ontario, Canada. She holds a certifi cate of graduation in fi ction writing from the Palmer Writers School, graduated June 16, 1972, she attended several years a writing class sponsored by the Monterey Peninsula College (published the writings thereof in her book Fathers Can Be Good Dads), and studied several writing courses given by the Great Courses. She has published twenty books and has currently fi nalized Moving to Alaska. There is one more book on her shelves which needs to be rewritten. It is titled “The Sixteenth Hour.” She received her BA and MA degrees at the University of Arizona and studied toward her PhD degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research of the novel Moving to Alaska was a lengthy process. It is a novel which takes place between the 1890s and the early 1900s and great care had to be taken by the author that modern innovations, inventions, and thoughts and ideas were not referred to in the process of creating the novel.