During his thirty-year career as a wildlife protection officer for the California Department of Fish and game, Steve Callan, conducted some of the most fascinating, complex and highly successful wildl
For seven months, Joe Upton steered his 32-foot boat, the Doreen, through the open channels and narrow, twisting passageways of Southeast Alaska, fishing for salmon. This is his account of that season
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and SurvivalBased on an Athabascan legend passed along from mother to daughter for many generations on the upper Yukon River in Alaska, this is the tragic and sh
An Athabaskan legend that interweaves the stories of Bird Girl, an independent young Indian woman, and Daagoo, a restless dreamer who leaves his homeland
In Regency England, a war widow returns a parcel and attracts the interest of a well-to-do retired sailing master and his sister, a self-made man returns to Scotland to marry the woman he has correspo
"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.
Tom Brennan writes another True Crime story as he covers the Mechele Linehan case. Linehan was an attractive, well-educated soccer mom married to a doctor and living the good life in Olympia, Washing
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
On March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsing bridges, and crumbling landscapes. The most powerful quake
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
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
A young upstate New York woman begins an adventure of a life-time as she moves away from her safe and conventional path. She is unable to resist the excitement and challenge of a chance to become a g
Howard Weaver advanced from foot soldier to field marshal in the Alaska Newspaper War, but he never left the fight. He spent time with small-town hoodlums and big-time politicians, crossed swords with
What would happen if Odysseus met Captain Ahab in the Fortieth Century? Only Captain Ahab is a beautiful woman named Steel who owns her own starship, and Odysseus is an unemployed actor named Mohandas
This is the witty, ironic, and deliciously outspoken coming-of-age memoir of Jack de Yonge set in Fairbanks, Alaska -- a once thriving little mining town slowly dying in the remote center of the vast
Three commercial fisherwomen share eighty seafood recipes as well as stories from life aboard a fishing boat; tips on cleaning, preparing, and preserving fish; and hints for pairing wines with seafood
The first and last to comment on the 1989 oil spill that devastated coastal Alaska is Joe Hazelwood, the captain of the ship. Also adding their voices are other crew members, the governor and other st
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
Kay Fanning's Alaska Story is an inspirational memoir of how Kay built the Anchorage Daily News into a bastion of progressive leadership. She did it with grace and integrity, always placing public int
James W. Brooks packed several lifetimes of adventure into his sixty-five years in Alaska -- working as a fisherman, trapper, musher, miner, wartime flyer, bush pilot, and whale biologist. In a beauti
"Murder at 40 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 intr
In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into th
"Roger Robinson has been Denali mountaineering for over forty years and has worked as a ranger for most of this time. Robinson has climbed Denali, at 20,310 feet, numerous times, leading patrols on th
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
Join internationally known wildlife artist Jon Van Zyle for a memorable exploration of a year in his Alaska -- camping, driving a dog team, encountering animals large and small -- as captured in paint
