Dispatches from the Last
Frontier:
Travels by
Canoe in Alaska’s Western Arctic with Richard Kahn
Emmy-award winning filmmaker
Richard Kahn has spent the last 12 summers paddling through wilderness on rivers
in the Brooks Mountain Range and the Arctic Slope of northwestern Alaska. He has
traveled extensively in the area known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska,
covering several thousand miles by canoe—camping on gravel bars by the side of
the river, carrying all his food and equipment—often for months at a time.
Through his travels, Kahn has developed a deep appreciation for this remote part
of Alaska. The pressure of oil and coal development in this unspoiled wilderness
has prompted him to speak in defense of this wild and beautiful
land.
This fall, Richard is traveling through New England and the Midwest
to share a multimedia presentation of his travels in the wild, undeveloped,
unprotected and threatened wilderness of the Reserve.
Richard is coming to Des
Moines!
Thursday November 17 – Free and open to the public
Franklin Public
Library
Nov. 17 - 6:30 to 7:45 pm
(doors open at 6:00 pm)
Address: 5000 Franklin Avenue,
Des Moines 50310
Travels by Canoe in
Alaska's Western
Arctic
Experience a wilderness
journey through the words and pictures of Emmy award-winning filmmaker Richard
Kahn
Join Richard Kahn for a
presentation on the wild, unprotected and threatened wilderness of the National
Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. This photographic journey records intense light, an
ocean of unnamed mountains, crystal clear rivers, delicate wild flowers and
glimpses of the animals, caribou, wolves, bears, and a rich assortment of
raptors, songbirds and waterfowl, whose lives are woven into the fabric of this
place.
Join Us for this Beautiful
Wilderness Experience!