Geographic Orientation/Alaska
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Into the Wild
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was fou… [more below]
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0385486804
- Language: English
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Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
$17.00 Read moreThe beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved.
“From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a fronti- Author: Specht, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1524798894
- Language: English
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All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship
$19.95 Add to cartIt was late November–one of the coldest periods to be on a ship near Alaska. The Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis had run aground during a severe storm and was taking on water. The engine room flooded, disa
- Author: Craig, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1555719643
- Language: English
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Frozen Stiff
$7.99 Add to cartWhat begins as a two-night camping and kayaking trek in the untamed Alaskan wilderness turns into a test of survival for Cody and her cousin Derek. While their mothers are in Juneau picking up supplie… [more below]
- Author: Shahan, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 12 1999
- ISBN10: 440413737
- Language: English
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Togo and Balto: The Dogs Who Saved a Town
$17.99 Read moreTwo dogs recount the relay race that brought life-saving medicine to children in Alaska.
It was 1925 and the world was in a diptheria pandemic. The town of Nome, Alaska, needed the serum to save its c- Series: Animalographies
- Author: Parachini, Jodie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0807503827
- Language: English
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Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak
$17.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1967, twelve young men ascended Alaska’s Mount McKinley–known to the locals as Denali. Engulfed by a once-in-alifetime blizzard, only five made it back down.
Andy Hall, a journalist
- Author: Hall, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0142181951
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to California
$28.95 Read moreA comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to West Coast marine fishes.
From the Arctic waters of Alaska to the southern tip of California, this fully illustrated guide captures the stunning divers
- Author: Kells, Valerie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1421418320
- Language: English
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Once Upon an Eskimo Time
$19.95 Read moreContinuing the sacred tradition of her ancestors, in Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder retells a year in her Eskimo mother’s life. Wilder eloquently captures the oral storytelling traditions of her
- Author: Wilder, Edna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1602230560
- Language: English
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To Russia with Love: An Alaskan’s Journey
$21.95 Read moreSon of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin,
- Author: Fischer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1602231400
- Language: English
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Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story
$21.95 Read moreExplores the history of the trail and celebrated the frontiersmen and their dogs who braved its dangers.
- Author: Riddles, Libby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0811722538
- Language: English
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Touching Spirit Bear
$18.99 Read moreIn his Nautilus Award-winning classic Touching Spirit Bear, author Ben Mikaelson delivers a powerful coming-of-age story of a boy who must overcome the effects that violence has had on his life.
After
- Series: Spirit Bear #1
- Author: Mikaelsen, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0380977443
- Language: English
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As the Falcon Flies
$6.99 Read moreFrank and Joe circle a new case in the wilds of Alaska in the twenty-fourth book in the thrilling Hardy Boys Adventures series.
Frank and Joe Hardy are excited when their parents’ friends, the Adensha- Series: Hardy Boys Adventures #24
- Author: Dixon, Franklin W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 153448325X
- Language: English
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
$19.00 Read moreThe bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discour… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0679776141
- Language: English
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Wild Man Island
$9.99 Add to cartAndy is in a
world of trouble.On the last day of a sea kayaking trip in southeast Alaska, fourteen-year-old Andy Galloway paddles away from his group to visit the nearby site where his archaeologist fa
- Author: Hobbs, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0380733102
- Language: English
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Molly of Denali: Molly’s Awesome Alaska Guide
$8.99 Add to cartBased on the Molly of Denali TV show now on PBS KIDS!
In Molly’s Awesome Alaska Guide, Molly shares all about her life in Qyah, Alaska. In this colorful paperback, written by Molly herself, you can me
- Series: Molly of Denali
- Author: Wgbh Kids
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062950428
- Language: English
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Among Wolves: Gordon Haber’s Insights Into Alaska’s Most Misunderstood Animal
$32.95 Read moreAlaska’s wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey playe… [more below]
- Author: Holleman, Marybeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1602232180
- Language: English
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Marine Mammals of the Pacific Northwest: Including Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Southern Alaska
$7.95 Read moreThe Pacific Ocean off the west coast of North America – ranging from the south coast of Alaska to the Equator – encompasses many marine environments, from warm tropics to cold temperate waters, and fr… [more below]
- Author: Folkens, Pieter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 8
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1550172549
- Language: English
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Volcano Blast (Disaster Strikes #4): Volume 4
$4.99 Add to cartWhen disaster strikes, the only thing you can count on is yourself
Noah and Emma Burton have traded the sand and surf of their Hawaiian home for a chilly stay in Alaska, and Noah isn’t happy about it…. [more below]
- Series: Disaster Strikes #4
- Author: Kennedy, Marlane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0545530474
- Language: English
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Blessing’s Bead
$15.95 Read moreNow in paperback: the acclaimed middle-grade novel tracing four generations of an Ipiaq family in Alaska, which the Washington Post praised as “a rare and beautiful book.”
ALASKA, 1917
Nutaaq adores h
- Author: Edwardson, Debby Dahl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643795767
- Language: English
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Julie’s Wolf Pack
$9.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed final book in the trilogy that begins with the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves.
In this thrilling adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was
- Series: Julie of the Wolves #3
- Author: George, Jean Craighead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 02, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062884328
- Language: English
