Alaska's Heroes: A Call to Courage

by Nancy Warren Ferrell and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

What makes a hero? Does anyone know, until they are called upon to help, if they have what it takes? In ""Alaska's Heroes: A Call to Courage,"" discover some of the Last Frontier's real heroes. These gripping stories of the Alaska State Award for Bravery-Heroism recipients celebrate true heroes: those who have unselfishly undertaken risks to their own lives and safety to help others in danger. A man risks hypothermia in an ice-cold lake to save passengers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088240542X
• ISBN13: 9780882405421
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good Reading About Good Alaskans

Retired publisher of the Ketchikan Daily News. Lew M. Williams, Jr. writes: Acts of heroism have occurred in almost every major city and spanned outlying areas from St. Lawrence Island to Delta Junction, from North Pole to Prince of Wales. Author Ferrell contacted more than 113 people and consulted many files to recount the heroism that has led to 30 medal awards since the first bestowed in 1965. Ferrell is a polished professional writer, as this book, her 12th indicates. (Review published in the Juneau Empire, the Anchorage News, and the Ketchikan Daily News.)