My cameo appearance on BBC2’s “Great American Railroad Journeys” can now be seen on the Internet. The episode appears here on YouTube. I make a short appearance about 16:00 minutes into the clip. The interview took place in the summer of 2018, when I went to Alaska for research and to lecture on my book…

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Caitlin Campbell Glacier Bay

(Reposted from August 2018) An email out of the blue from U.S. park ranger Caitlin Campbell sparked my first trip to Alaska this summer, capped by a special experience at Glacier Bay. Caiti first contacted me a year ago after stumbling across the website and blog I started to chronicle my progress on a biography…

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