'Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antar...

On October 23, 1918, a storm rose and the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Sophia ran aground on...

As a young man, naturalist, William Berry felt the call of both art and biology. This book is a u...

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Mosco...

'John Schoen's Tongass Odyssey is both a memoir and a scientific manuscript. As a memoir it offer...

Chuck & Gladys Dart: Manley Hot Springs

The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encount...

'Dedicated to the Officers and Sailors of the Alaska Marine Highway System, Past and Present.'

Illustrated with photographs and written in the form of a series of haikus, this story reveals a ...

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were ...

When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other clim...

'In this book, you'll learn how to play centuries-old games with intriguing names, like the Eskim...

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to t...

The crookedest street in Fairbanks, an Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named for town fou...

'To the Chukchi Peninsula and to the Tlingit Indians 1881 1882, ' originally published in German ...

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of ge...

From the moment Ruth Sanders rips the glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she believes her...

'Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in Glass, Light & Electricity wander through landscapes ...

'Waterman's profound respect for the northern lands burns on every page, and his photos and essay...

What's for dinner tonight? Is it something shaken from a bag or peeled from a plastic tray? Or is...

Unique among the documents on Alaska exploration, this volume contains two accounts of the same t...

Round the World Voyage of Hieromonk Gideon 1803-1809

'Life and Times of a Big River' weaves together the fascinating cultural and natural history of i...

A cold climate is no excuse for a dull, colorless garden. The key is knowing the right plants tha...

Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters--prospect...

When the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, Charles Bradley enlisted in the army and found himsel...

In what distinguished anthropologist James VanStone has described as 'a superb example of salvage...

A fascinating study that adds a new and important dimension to our understanding of Alaska's soci...

'I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. But I am dressed like you, roughly for the N...

First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During Wo...

Goodwin Semaken: Kaltag

Stanley Dayo: Manley Hot Springs

Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced f...

Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

What do you do when a young moose calf wants to dine on your freshly planted Lady's Mantle for lu...

Hans Himmelheber describes the cultural and artistic heritage of the Yup'ik in southwestern Alask...

In award-winning writer Becky Hagenston's third collection of stories, Scavengers, a woman obsess...

Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities s...

Keet, a ten-year-old Tlingit Indian boy, stows away for a voyage on his father's canoe . . . and ...

G.-F. Muller and Siberia 1733-1743, 1

Excerpt from the Introduction

'In 1912, Shoki Kayamori and his box camera arrived in a small Tlingit village in southeast Alask...

Alaska s Aleutian Island chain, barren and windswept, arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia ...

With the Klondike gold rush, a struggle erupted in Alaska between the protection of big game anim...

Readers follow Ollie, a river otter, from birth through his first year. Ollie cavorts and capers ...

In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, Francois Mercier, traveled ac...

This beautiful and detailed book tells the history of Kutchin beadwork, beginning with early regi...

Solo travel today is anything but solitary, with the familiar glow of technology and nearly senti...