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MARC recordAlaska Highway mythology: bulldozers to RVs / Laura Pitkanen.
| Title: | Alaska Highway mythology: bulldozers to RVs / Laura Pitkanen. |
| Author(s): | Pitkanen, Laura. |
| Date: | 2010. |
| In: | Northern Review. (2010.), Vol. 32 (2010) |
| Abstract: | Discusses mythology of Alaska Highway, especially images of hardship, adventure and wilderness perpetuated by travel writers and tourist industry. Argues that images originate from popular literature, in which highway travellers have ceaselessly disseminated tales of adventure, challenge and hardship among general public. |
| Notes: | Northern Review. Vol. 32 :105-133 (2010). |
| Keywords: | 625.7 -- Road construction and maintenance. 656 -- Transport services. 656.1 -- Road transport, haulage. 796.51.7 -- Tourism. V -- History. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*49) -- Alaska. |
| SPRI record no.: | 191040 |
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