Geographic Orientation/Alaska
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
$17.99 Add to cartAuthor Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering.
Steller was one of Europe’s f
- Author: Ford, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 088240394X
- Language: English
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge
$19.00 Add to cartTwo by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge.
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arct- Author: Fredston, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0865476551
- Language: English
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The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II
$18.99 Add to cartThis “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered d
- Author: Obmascik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 145167838X
- Language: English
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Alaska Trees and Shrubs
$26.95 Read moreAlaska Trees and Shrubs has been the definitive work on the woody plants of Alaska for more than three decades. This new, completely revised second edition provides updated information on habitat, as … [more below]
- Author: Viereck, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1889963860
- Language: English
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Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles
$17.99 Add to cart“Here is the real thing — good old-fashioned American values coming from small-town Alaska.” —The Boston Globe
The Alaskan landscape–so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable–may be the reason the peop- Author: Lende, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 1616200510
- Language: English
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Wild Flowers of the Yukon, Alaska & Northwestern Canada
$24.95 Read moreIn recent years, more and more nature lovers have been flocking to discover the untouched serenity of the North. Those who make the journey are rewarded with views of a remarkable landscape abounding … [more below]
- Author: Trelawny, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 1550174983
- Language: English
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Walking my Dog, Jane
$25.00 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, workers laid a pile of gravel over the length of Alaska. This was the service road for the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free saltwat
- Author: Rozell, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 173394821X
- Language: English
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Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
$21.99 Add to cartThe horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen’s reign of terror
As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the see- Author: Gilmour, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049489
- Language: English
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Murder at 40 Below: True Crime Stories from Alaska
$17.95 Add to cartMurder at forty Below is a gritty yet fascinating account of many of Alaska’s most notorious and unusual murder cases. Drawn from police files, eyewitness accounts, and news reports, these stories int… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0945397992
- Language: English
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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
$17.99 Add to cartDeadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Se
- Author: Thompson, Kalee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0061766305
- Language: English
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Fishing Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula: A Complete Angler’s Guide
$23.99 Add to cartFishing Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is not merely a reference guide. It showcases the uniqueness of Alaska while emphasizing the universal passions that make the sport of fishing so compelling. With stor
- Author: Atcheson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0881505501
- Language: English
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The Alaska from Scratch Cookbook: Seasonal. Scenic. Homemade.
$32.50 Add to cartFrom Alaska from Scratch blogger Maya Wilson comes a beautifully scenic cookbook celebrating Alaska and its ocean-to-table, homemade food culture.
When Maya Wilson and her three kids transplanted to A- Author: Wilson, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1635650631
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
$21.95 Add to cartHistory has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Klondike Gold Rush of North America-the prostitutes and other “disreputable” women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming go
- Author: Morgan, Lael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: August 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0945397763
- Language: English
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Alaska’s Wilderness Medicines: Healthful Plants of the Far North
$15.99 Add to cart“Whenever I open it, I find another marvelous tidbit, like Viereck’s description of uses for soft, acidic plant sphagnum, or peat moss, the plant often found chinking the walls of log cabins…” – Fai
- Author: Viereck, Eleanor G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0882403222
- Language: English
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Haunted Alaska
$12.95 Add to cartHAUNTED ALASKA is a collection of ghost stories that will make the hair rise on the back of your neck. They tell of miners terrorized by ghosts, of reindeer herders who run in fear as one of their own
- Author: Wendt, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 945397771
- Language: English
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Sleeping Lady
$16.95 Add to cartWhen the ice breaks, one mystery is solved and another arises. Six months after Norm Lewis disappeared while flying out Anchorage, his fractured Cessna is discovered half submerged in the frigid water
- Series: An Alex Jensen Mystery
- Author: Henry, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1941890407
- Language: English
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Singing of the Dead
$24.00 Add to cartKate Shugak hires onto the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate, who went to colleg
- Author: Stabenow, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: May 19 2002
- ISBN10: 1250314690
- Language: English
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A Taint in the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel
$25.00 Add to cartIn Dana Stabenow’s latest novel, a woman hires Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak to clear her mother’s name. Twenty years ago, the mother was convicted of arson and murder, of setting fire to the family home
- Series: Kate Shugak Novels #14
- Author: Stabenow, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1250231825
- Language: English
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Perfect Fit
$15.95 Add to cartIn this sexy, heartfelt classic from New York Times bestselling romance legend Brenda Jackson, one woman’s run of bad luck may end in the sweetest kind of windfall. Set against the awesome landscape o… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 149673792X
- Language: English
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Midnight Come Again
$24.00 Add to cartDana Stabenow’s Midnight Come Again is a magnificent crime novel about life in America’s last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder.
Kate, a former investigator for the- Series: Kate Shugak Novels #10
- Author: Stabenow, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1250101972
- Language: English
