North to Alaska, Paperback

Reducere. This newly revised edition includes up-to-date information and historical photographs on everything you need to know about the Last Frontier, all i...

Reducere. In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Bor...

Reducere. On December 7, 1941 the United States suddenly found itself at war with the Empire of Japan. Alaska's Aleutian Island chain led through the North P...

Reducere. "Into the North Wind" chronicles Jill Homer's record-breaking bicycle ride across Alaska on the Iditarod Trail. Jill is one of those "accidental at...

Reducere. PACIFIC OCEAN 1890Rescued by handsome clipper ship Captain Harlan Walker, Rachel Ruth Merritt and her grandfather are dismayed to find themselves h...

Reducere. "Plants That We Eat" is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept th...

Reducere. Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author Jam...

Reducere. From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and ...

Reducere. A missing grandmother. A trek across rugged Alaska. A woman who'd rather be anywhere else.Bree loves cities and dislikes wilderness. When her mothe...

Reducere. Alaska Trees and Shrubs describes and illustrates over 150 woody plants - the trees and shrubs - found in the 49th State. Included are essentially ...

Reducere. DescriptionRV Adventure To Explore the Wild & Wonderful Alaska & CanadaA Budget Friendly Guide to Visit Alaska & Canada in a RVWhy visit Canada and...

The everyman's take on breaking out of the everyday, cycling 5, 000 miles through North America. Achievable adventure for the great unwashed.

Reducere. Description"I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North." Roughly for the North is a ten...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

Reducere. In June 1942, Japanese troops occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska, the first enemy occupation of US territory since the War o...

Reducere. They are watching us, these ghosts of the North. They cook breakfast, play cards, mine gold, turn on radios, and play the piano. Haunted Alaska is ...

Reducere. Acorn cakes, bannock, milkweed soup and fried yucca petals are just a few of the dozens of recipes in this book. These are recipes collected from F...

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

Offering an intersectional approach to US empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labour exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska...

Reducere. Young readers will thrill to this breathless story of courage and determination set in the Alaska wilderness. Abandoned by their mother in Seattle,...

Reducere. Two of the Northwest Coast's largest cities and its most prominent island are named after the British explorer, George Vancouver, who is largely un...

Reducere. DescriptionHigh adventure, men vs. the wilderness, history and the gold rushes of the North spring to life in this lost gold mine story set in Sout...

Reducere. From a remote cabin in the rugged rainforest of the Alaskan wilderness, where the untamed landscape tumbles into the ocean, a remarkable yellow Lab...

Reducere. DescriptionCelebrating the 20th anniversary of Alaskan favorite Children of the Midnight Sun, the same author and photographer join again to collab...

Reducere. DescriptionA kid favorite of life in the far north, Recess at 20 Below is now repackaged in a new design with bonus content from the author Experie...

Reducere. A story of love, loss, family and discovery - a story of life on a trapline in the Far North. "Bob Harte was well-known to those of us in the trapp...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of co...

Reducere. DescriptionChristmas arrives early in Rescue Alaska as the search and rescue team are tasked with finding a missing Santa. With a new mystery to so...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative abo...

Reducere. Eager to investigate rumors of land north of Alaska, Ernest deKoven Leffingwell and Ejnar Mikkelsen organized the 1906 Anglo American Polar Expedit...

Reducere. With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from b...

In The Call of the Wild, Buck, a domesticated dog, is stolen from his home in California and sold into sled dog slavery during the 1890s Klondike g...

Reducere. The state motto "North to the Future", Alaska is to move into the future and into the new Era. This book contains 31 days of separate prophetic wor...

Reducere. This story finds the Hollister family off to Alaska with Uncle Russ and their two cousins, Teddy and Jean. Russ Hollister, a commercial artist and ...

Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most imp...

Dreaming Bears is the true story of the rare friendship that develops between a young medical student with deep roots in the South and an elderly I...

Reducere. One man. One bike. One tent. One hell of an adventure.THREE-TIME INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER: GOLD MEDAL: eLit Book AwardsBRONZE MEDAL - Indepe...

Reducere. In the fall of 1944, Constance and Harmon "Bud" Helmericks built a cabin and overwintered in Alaska's remote Brooks Range. With spring melt, they r...

Reducere. Have you ever wanted to travel around North America and see all the beautiful places this great land has to offer? If you travel by airplane, you m...

LONELY MEN IN HARD LUCK, ALASKA, LOOKING FOR WOMEN. OUR TOWN MIGHT BE COLD, BUT OUR HEARTS ARE WARM Location: north of the Arctic Circle. Populatio...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find tha...

Reducere. As the Summer of Love comes to an end, 15-year-old Ida Petrovich waits for a father who never comes home. While commercial fishing in Alaska, he is...

LONELY MEN IN HARD LUCK, ALASKA, LOOKING FOR WOMEN. OUR TOWN MIGHT BE COLD, BUT OUR HEARTS ARE WARM Location: north of the Arctic Circle. Populatio...

[An] illuminating memoir. --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York TimesThe story of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditatio...

Reducere. Across the Shaman's River is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fa...

Reducere. Balto, the great Alaska sled dog, has been dead since 1933. But he still stands larger-than-life on Dogdom's Mount Olympus, where the world's great...

Reducere. DescriptionJOANN ROBERTSON'S GRANDFATHER MOVED TO THE YUKON in 1897 to make his fortune. He did not succeed at that, but he did fall in love with t...

Reducere. Dreams turn into nightmares in this haunted tale of a beautiful home in the cold dark woods of Alaska. The story spans ten years of haunting distur...

Reducere. The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy...

Reducere. The Inside Passage is something of a holy grail for contemporary sea kayakers. It is without question the most scenic and challenging paddling trip...

Reducere. A thrilling journey by canoe across Alaska, by critically acclaimed writer Adam Weymouth. The Yukon river is 2, 000 miles long, the longest stretch...

Reducere. Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) called him Shadow Catcher. But the images he captured were far more powerful tha...

Reducere. About the AuthorRon Adkison was an avid hiker and backpacker, beginning his outdoor explorations at age six. He had logged over 12, 000 trail miles...

DescriptionNew with Index Alaska statehood - a historic 25 years This fifth book in the Aunt Phil's Trunk Alaska history series highlights the firs...

Reducere. Stripped of their ancestral languages generations ago, the Lumbee Indians of Robeson Count, North Carolina, carved out a unique dialect of English ...

Reducere. In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pu...

A distant owl's mournful hoot echoes through a frozen forest. A shadow swoops across the tundra; lemmings and voles scurry beneath the foliage as t...

Reducere. Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems...

Reducere. Planning a vacation? Want to find a haunted house in your own state? Want to get really scared? Here's the definitive listing of spooky places in e...

Reducere. In 1881, two German geographers were on their way to the continental United States from the Bering Sea Coast when they came upon a Native populatio...

Reducere. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, Wyatt Williams offers a powerful look at why we kill and eat animals. In order to understand why we ea...

This book is the first comprehensive field guide to the mushrooms of the Northwest - that region which covers the area from Alaska to northern Cali...

Reducere. Join Kami the Kayak and her paddler Suz, along with a host of outdoor friends on a wondrous seafaring adventure to Alaska. Based on a true story!I...

Reducere. A pocket-sized photographic field guide to Arctic birds, mammals, and other wildlifeWildlife of the Arctic is an accessible and richly illustrated ...

Reducere. Lifelong outdoor adventurer and wilderness leadership instructor Clyde Carter brings to you this compilation of his favorite knot and rope tricks, ...

Reducere. The book guides the exploring naturalist to water's edge destinations throughout North America including Canada and Alaska. Main sections of the bo...

The John Muir Trail (JMT) is a world-famous trek and North America's best known walking trail. It runs for 216 miles through California's high Sier...

Reducere. When author Michaela Stith left her home in Alaska to visit the Lower 48, she learned that many people think of the Arctic as an icy wasteland devo...

Reducere. Sophie Rose is a crime reporter at a major Chicago newspaper and the daughter of Bobby Rose, a charming gentleman and big-time thief. When asked to...

DescriptionAleutians 1942-43 is the full story of the forgotten battle to liberate American soil from the Japanese during World War II.It is often ...