Epicenter Press (WA)
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Sled Dog Wisdom: Humorous and Heartwarming Tales of Alaska’s Mushers, Rev. 2nd Ed
$14.95 Add to cartMushers love to share stories of the rare relationships they have with their sled dogs, whether they’re in the dog lot, out training, or competing in sprint, mid-distance, or thousand-mile races. As m… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1935347527
- Language: English
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Bad Friday
$16.95 Add to cartOn 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 in
- Author: Freedman, Lew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 17
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1935347241
- Language: English
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Her Denali Solo: A Woman Alone on North America’s Highest Peak
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1990, when only fifty of the thousand annual attempts to climb Denali were made by women, Norma Jean Bowers summited without assistance. As a solo climber, she could not rope to others for safety a
- Author: Lundgren, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: January 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1684922755
- Language: English
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The Ghost of the Kenai
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1796, the men at Fort Kenay or Russian Redoubt Saint Nicholas are terrified. A ghost, a woman in a tattered white dress, screams nightly along the banks of the Kenai River below the bluffs where th… [more below]
- Author: Hardy, Aurora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1684922267
- Language: English
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Death in the Underworld
$18.95 Add to cartFederal Marshal Frank Leishke is called to the scene of the vicious murder of a prostitute in Douglas, Alaska, in 1916. The site of the largest gold mine in the world, Douglas was also home to numerou
- Author: Longenbaugh, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1684922348
- Language: English
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Hill of Dead Horses
$16.95 Add to cartIn the early twentieth century a bear frightens a team of horses into plunging to their deaths from off a hill near a proposed railroad route through wilderness Alaska. In 1974 young Californians Thom
- Author: Birdsall, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684922488
- Language: English
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Death at the Shipshape Bookshop
$16.95 Add to cartJunetta Beale is living in paradise. As owner of the Shipshape Bookshop in Southeast Alaska, she sells books in town, operates a lending library for the locals, and serves the villages in her floatin
- Author: McKennan, Greta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684922402
- Language: English
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Mad Manchurian
$39.95 Add to cartI was born in Harbin, Manchuria, (later China), in 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War my mother, sister and I, along with other non-combatants of the Allied countries, were taken by the Jap
- Author: Meschery, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684920930
- Language: English
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Hardship Alaska
$16.95 Add to cartHardship Alaska chronicles Donald Proffit’s life as a Vietnam War era conscientious objector as he sets off on two years of exile, service, soul-searching, and self-discovery in the rugged, beauty of
- Author: Proffit, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1684920574
- Language: English
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Patsy Ann of Alaska
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Patsy Ann arrived in Juneau, Alaska, with an independent streak as big as the territory. The
English bull terrier cycled through a couple of households, running away each time, making it
clear
- Author: Brown, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1684922089
- Language: English
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Our Alaskan Winter
$19.95 Add to cartOur Alaskan Winter continues the story of husband and wife Bud and Connie Helmericks’ adventures in the Arctic. That winter they lived a nomadic life with the Eskimos, hunting caribou inland and then
- Author: Helmericks, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 194189044X
- Language: English
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Forgotten Murders from Alaska’s Capital
$16.95 Add to cartFormer Alaska newspaper reporter Betsy Longenbaugh brings to life 10 stories of murder that occurred between 1902 and 1959. Learn about Alaska’s first serial killer, a Polish Jewish prostitute who met… [more below]
- Author: Longenbaugh, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1942078889
- Language: English
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The Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartTHE COLUMBIA commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and source of irrigation. Here is the story of its explorers who came by boat an
- Author: Holbrook, Stewart H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: June 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1941890083
- Language: English
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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
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Chasing the Dark
$14.95 Add to cartJoe Jackson’s life has seemed to follow the hours of low light; waking in the pitch-dark to beat the sun and lingering until it’s long gone. The stories told in between range from hunting snowshoe har… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1684922186
- Language: English
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Northwest Epic
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story about 1,500 miles of gravel road. Quickly built by the U.S. Army over an unmapped stretch of the Canadian Rockies in the tense aftermath of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the Alask… [more below]
- Author: Twichell, Heath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684920183
- Language: English
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On the Edge of Nowhere
$14.95 Add to cartFor sheer excitement and adventure, few novels match the true-life story of James Huntington. The son of a white trapper and Indian mother, Huntington learned early to fight for survival in Alaska’s r… [more below]
- Author: Huntington, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0970849338
- Language: English
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Riding the Wild Side of Denali: Alaska Adventures with Horses and Huskies
$18.95 Add to cartIdentical twins Miki and Julie Collins trap, hunt, fish, and garden in Alaska’s wilderness just north of Denali National Park in Alaska’s vast interior. Their closest companions are loyal sled dogs an
- Author: Collins, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347810
- Language: English
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Strange Stories of Alaska & Th
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the pages of early-day northern newspapers comes a startling collection of accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: Mammoths discovered frozen whole in the icy grip of a glacier. A trop… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0945397518
- Language: English
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Surviving the Island of Grace 2nd Rev Ed.
$18.95 Add to cartAn inspiring memoir of one woman’s life on the far edge of America and her struggle to find home amid the isolation, work, risk and beauty of the Alaskan wilderness.
- Author: Fields, Leslie Leyland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: July 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1603812709
- Language: English
