Kristina's Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska

When Kristina Ahlnäs moves from Finland to Alaska to start a new life as an American oceanographer, her life is clearly more than normal. In this quirky memoir, Kristina recalls unique experiences in her job, to seeing UFOs in the Alaskan sky and even building her own log cabin. This easy-to-read, spunky book allows readers to slip into a world where its so cold cars don't start, finding some warm place to stay is near impossible, and friends will do anything to help each other. Travel with Kristina from Finland to Alaska where she starts off paying a rent of $220 a month, to sleeping in a tent as she builds her 8 by 8 foot practice cabin with a 16-foot ladder (the cache), the log cabin, and life, she could only dream of in Kristina's Cache.

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Kristina's Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska

When Kristina Ahlnäs moves from Finland to Alaska to start a new life as an American oceanographer, her life is clearly more than normal. In this quirky memoir, Kristina recalls unique experiences in her job, to seeing UFOs in the Alaskan sky and even building her own log cabin. This easy-to-read, spunky book allows readers to slip into a world where its so cold cars don't start, finding some warm place to stay is near impossible, and friends will do anything to help each other. Travel with Kristina from Finland to Alaska where she starts off paying a rent of $220 a month, to sleeping in a tent as she builds her 8 by 8 foot practice cabin with a 16-foot ladder (the cache), the log cabin, and life, she could only dream of in Kristina's Cache.

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Kristina's Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska

Kristina's Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska

by Kristina Ahlnïs
Kristina's Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska

Kristina's Cache: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in Alaska

by Kristina Ahlnïs

Overview

When Kristina Ahlnäs moves from Finland to Alaska to start a new life as an American oceanographer, her life is clearly more than normal. In this quirky memoir, Kristina recalls unique experiences in her job, to seeing UFOs in the Alaskan sky and even building her own log cabin. This easy-to-read, spunky book allows readers to slip into a world where its so cold cars don't start, finding some warm place to stay is near impossible, and friends will do anything to help each other. Travel with Kristina from Finland to Alaska where she starts off paying a rent of $220 a month, to sleeping in a tent as she builds her 8 by 8 foot practice cabin with a 16-foot ladder (the cache), the log cabin, and life, she could only dream of in Kristina's Cache.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781963851021
Publisher: Olympus Story House
Publication date: 03/26/2024
Pages: 410
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

I grew up during WW2 in Finland. Girl scouts taught me how to improvise, take initiative and-peel logs. I believe there is a way around what seems impossible if you pray for God and Jesus to help and guide.I studied Geophysics - Oceanography at the University of Helsinki but could not get on the oceanography ship because men were selected. I came on board as a mess girl! An ASLA-Fulbright scholarship brought me to USA as a student at the University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. After work in Seattle and Sweden I got a job offer from Alaska. The book deals with select experiences during 30 of the more than 50 years I lived in Alaska.
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