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FRANK KEIM is an educator, nature writer and environmental activist. He worked for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia, an anthropologist in Ecuador for four years, and as a secondary school teacher of Yup'ik Eskimos in Alaska's Lower Yukon Delta for 21 years. He has contributed chapters to the books Arctic Wings and The Last Frontier, and published three poetry books, Voices on the Wind (2011), Today I Caught Your Spirit (2014), and Trails Taken...so many still to take... (2018). In 2012 he published White Water Blue, Paddling and Trekking Alaska's Wild Rivers. He lives north of Fairbanks, Alaska.

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"Frank Keim, poet, educator, environmentalist, naturalist, lives in Fairbanks, and has written several books of poetry, plus a previous book describing Alaska river trips-White Water Blue, from 2012. In this new book, Frank describes 11 different trips on wild Alaskan rivers-all but one being up in the Arctic; the last is in Wood Tikchik State Park in south central Alaska-a vast compendium of connected lakes and rivers. At least one trek described is not actually on a river, but backpacking in the Sadlerochit Mountains in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In his new book, Down Alaska's Wild Rivers, Frank Keim describes 11 different trips on wild Alaskan rivers-all but one being up in the Arctic; the last is in Wood Tikchik State Park in south central Alaska-a vast compendium of connected lakes and rivers. At least one trek described is not actually on a river, but backpacking in the Sadlerochit Mountains in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. When I began reading Frank's book, I was amazed at the level of detailed day-by-day description. Do we really need this much detail? I mused. But what at first seemed excessive quickly became the ""meat"", the crux of the trip descriptions-the daily journal format made me feel as though I was right there really sharing the adventure with Frank and his family or friends. As I read, I felt absorbed into the day-by-day account, including exceptionally detailed identifications and descriptions of many kinds of birds and plants-their appearances and, at least for birds, their movements and activities. Frank has a truly thorough knowledge of the many bird species and flowering plants encountered. In time, as I seemed to be headed toward finishing the book too fast, I rationed myself to follow along-reading one chapter day per day. The rivers he traveled include the Sheenjek, Kongakut, Yukon, Birch Creek, Spring Creek and Marsh Fork, Canning, Ivishak, Delta, and the Wood-Tikchik lake and river systems in southwest Alaska. -- from review by Vicky Hoover, for Sierra Club"

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