Journeys Down the Line; Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

[0-385-0-385-11578] 1978. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 609pp. Notes, index, map endpapers. "Late in July 1977 the first oil from Prudhoe Bay reached the end of the Trans-Alaska pipeline at Valdez and poured into the tanker that would carry it to the West Coast. No project since the building of the Panama Canal or the transcontinental railroad had so totally engaged us as a nation and so embroiled us in domestic controversy". Locale: Alaska; Western Canada. (Western America, Engineering, History--Canada, History--United States, Pipelines).