This collection, a sequel to Authentic Alaska (1998) features 32 essays by rural Alaskans enrolled in distance courses through the University of Alaska system. The essays, grouped by theme (e.g. recre
A wryly humorous and inspirational story about a proud Alaska Native family struggling to survive in two worlds. Sam and Louise Harper and their ten children make a soul-grinding transition into a mod
The year is 1780, and Marco Mondragon is a brand inspector in the royal Spanish colony of New Mexico whose home is on the edge of the domain of the fierce Comanche. On a trip to Santa Fe, he mee
In 1964, Hudson landed in Unalaska, a 1,000-mile chain of treeless and windswept islands. In his intimate memoir, he weaves together landscape and language, storytelling and silence, ancient mythology
Jerusalem has no strategic value. It has no oil, water, or gold. Yet people from all over the world wept for it, prayed for it, and dreamed of it for millennia. As soon as you get there, you see why.W
Francesca di Paoli arrives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1925, during a time of turmoil. The peace is shattered by a massive landslide and flooding, and some local residents are up in arms agains new
The island of East Pukapuka lies in the path of a tsunami that will kill everyone but Butter, a girl more worried about the lives of the injured animals she cares for than her own. Butter is rescued b
"This nifty little book will inform and amuse with its irreverent yet factual explanations of Alaska's own unique vocabulary and idioms"--Page [4] of cover.
