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Among Grizzlies : Living With Wild Bears in Alaska
by Timothy Treadwell, Jewel Palovak
Listed under Bears

Alaska
by Art Wolfe, Nick Jans
Listed under Alaska - Photo Essays

Anchorage: Early Photographs of the Great Land
by Ann Chandonnet
Listed under Alaska - Photo Essays

Alaska Gold Prospectors Guide
by Ron Wendt
Listed under Prospecting

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
by Subhankar Banerjee
Hardcover from Mountaineers Books
Book Published: April, 2003

Alaska Steam: A Pictorial History of the Alaska Steamship Company (Alaska Geographic, Vol 11, No 4)
by Lucile McDonald, Penny Rennick, Jean Chapman
Paperback from Alaska Geographic Society
Book Published: December, 1984
Special Order

Alaska's Sky Follies: The Funny Side of Flying in the Far North
by Joe Rychetnik, Sandy Jamieson
Paperback from Epicenter Press
Book Published: October, 1995

Alaska's Wildlife
by Tom Walker
Hardcover from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Book Published: May, 1995

Alaska 1899: Essays from the Harriman Expedition
by George Bird Grinnell, Polly Burroughs, Victoria Wyatt, Burroughs Polly
Paperback from University of Washington Press
Book Published: March, 1995

Alaska: Images of the Country
by Galen Rowell, John McPhee
Hardcover from Sierra Club Books
Book Published: May, 1997

Alaska Heroes: A Call to Courage
by Nancy Warren Ferrell
Paperback from Alaska Northwest Books
Book Published: October, 2002

Alaska Place Names
by Alan Edward Schorr
Paperback from Denali Press
Book Published: April, 1991

Alaska Passages: 20 Voices from Above the 54th Parallel
by Susan Fox Rogers
Paperback from Sasquatch Books
Book Published: March, 1997

Anchorage: From Its Humble Origins As a Railroad Construction Camp (City History Series)
by Elizabeth A. Tower
Paperback from Epicenter Press
Book Published: June, 2003

Arctic Bush Pilot
by James Anderson, Jim Rearden, James Andereson, James "Andy" Anderson as told to Jim Reardon
Paperback from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Book Published: 26 May, 2000

Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Story of Survival and Courage in the Alaska Wilds
by Norma Cobb, Charles Sasser
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: October, 2000

Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land--From Russian Fur Traders to the Gold Rush, Extraordinary Railroads, World War II, the Oil Boom, and the Fight Over ANWR
by Walter R. Borneman
Hardcover from HarperCollins
Book Published: 04 February, 2003

Alaska Days With John Muir (Peregrine Smith Literary Naturalists Series)
by Samuel Hall Young, Richard F. Fleck
Paperback from Gibbs Smith Publisher
Book Published: April, 1991

Alaska
by Fred Hirschmann, Suzan Nightingale
Hardcover from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Book Published: May, 1994

The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness
by Lynn Schooler
Listed under Ecology

Blazing Alaska's Trails
by Alfred Hulse Brooks
Hardcover from Univ of Alaska Pr
Book Published: December, 1973
Special Order

The Book of the Tongass
by Carolyn Servid, Donald Snow, Don Snow
Paperback from Milkweed Editions
Book Published: September, 1999

Building the Alaska Log Home
by Tom Walker
Paperback from Alaska Northwest Books
Book Published: October, 1998

The Bears of Katmai: Alaska's Famous Brown Bears
by Matthias Breiter
Listed under Bears

Best Tales of the Yukon

Coming Back Alive
by Spike Walker
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: August, 2001

The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
by Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
Book Description: Alaska, 1925: the diptheria serum is 674 miles away. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. 

Nome, Alaska, sits on the edge of the Bering Sea two degrees below the Arctic Circle, and there are few more forbidding places on earth, especially in winter. Dr. Curtis Welch knew the signs of diphtheria, knew that his patients—many of them children—would die without a shipment of fresh serum. 

The port was icebound and the nearest railhead was almost 700 miles away across mountains, rivers, and the treacherous ice of Norton Sound. A blizzard was brewing, and airplanes, in 1925, could not fly in such conditions. Only the dogs could do it. A relay was set up, and the drivers, many of them Native Alaskans, set off into the night at 60š below zero, often trusting their lead dogs to find the trail under feet of driven snow. The legendary heroism and endurance of the men and dogs in the Serum Run need no enhancement. Here, for the first time, their story is told in full. 34 b/w illustrations.
Hardcover from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: June, 2003

The Capture of Attu: A World War II Battle As Told by the Men Who Fought There
by Robert J. Mitchell, Sewell T. Tyng, Nelson L. Drummond, United States War Dept, Gregory J. W. Urwin
Paperback from Bison Bks Corp
Book Published: April, 2000

Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp: Fairbanks, Alaska
by Terrence Cole
Paperback from Univ of Alaska Pr
Book Published: December, 1991

Caribou: Wanderer of the Tundra
by Tom Walker
Paperback from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Book Published: June, 2000

Exploring the Unknown: Historic Diaries of Bradford Washburn's Alaska/Yukon Expeditions
by Bradford, Dr. Washburn (Photographer), Lew Freedman (Editor)
Book Description: Alaska and the Yukon. Cold. Mysterious. Distant. Imagine how empty and forbidding the region seemed in the 1930s when Bradford Washburn began a series of exploratory expeditions. With its glorious black-and-white, large-format photographs, Exploring the Unknown contains previously unpublished diaries kept during Washburn's 1934 first-ascent climb of Alaska's Mt. Crillon; the 1935 National Geographic Society-sponsored exploration of wilderness sections of Canada's Yukon; and the 1951 climb of Mt. McKinley's West Buttress.

Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
by Steve K. Lloyd
(Hardcover - August 2000)

Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore
by Nancy Lord, Laura Simonds Southworth
Paperback from Counterpoint Press
Book Published: 04 April, 2000

Frank Barr: Bush Pilot in Alaska and the Yukon (Caribou Classics)
by Dermot Cole
Paperback from Alaska Northwest Books
Book Published: September, 1999

Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
by Lael Morgan
Paperback: 352 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x 9.00 x 6.02
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.; ; 2nd edition (November 1999)
ISBN: 0945397763

Gold Rush Dogs
by Jane G. Haigh, Claire Rudolf Murphy, Claire Rudolf Murphy
Paperback from Alaska Northwest Books
Book Published: May, 2001

Guide to the Birds of Alaska
by Robert H. Armstrong

Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest : Maps of Exploration and Discovery : British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Yukon
by Derek Hayes

History, Ethnology, and Anthropology of the Aleut (Anthropology of Pacific North America Series)
by Waldemar Jochelson, Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner, Herbert D. G. Maschner
Paperback from Univ of Utah Pr (Txt)
Book Published: April, 2002

The Ice-Age History of Alaskan National Parks
by Scott A. Elias
Paperback from Smithsonian Institution Press
Book Published: May, 1995

In the Shadow of Mount McKinley
by William N. Beach, Carl Rungius
Paperback from The Derrydale Press
Book Published: May, 2000

In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley
by Jonathan Waterman
Paperback from The Lyons Press
Book Published: July, 1998

Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska (New American West Series)
by Theodore Catton
Paperback from University of New Mexico Press
Book Published: November, 1997

Living On The Land: Change Among the Inuit of Baffin Island
by John S. Matthiasson
Listed under Inuit

Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest
by Richard K. Nelson
Paperback from University of Chicago Press (Trd)
Book Published: May, 1986

Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
by Debbie S. Miller, Margaret Murie
Paperback from Alaska Northwest Books
Book Published: September, 2000

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
by Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke
Paperback from Alaska Northwest Books
Book Published: June, 2003

Portrait of the Alaska Railroad
by Ray Corral, Kaylene Johnson, Roy Corral
Hardcover from Alaska Northwest Books
Book Published: May, 2003

Rods & Wings: A History of the Fishing Lodge Business in Bristol Bay, Alaska
by Bo Bennett
(Hardcover)

The Rescue Season: The Heroic Story of the 210th Rescue Squad--Alaska's Parajumpers
by Bob Drury
Book Description It is late May in Alaska, the height of the climbing season in the world's most treacherous mountain range. Three Englishmen are clawing their way up the sheer West Rib of Denali, the highest mountain in North America. During a break in the weather, they attempt a mad dash for the summit 4,000 feet above them. Twelve miles away, clinging to a vertical wall of ice, two experienced American climbers also see the break in the clouds as their chance to reach the summit of Thunder Mountain, the...
Hardcover: 238 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.88 x 9.57 x 6.36
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (February 15, 2001)
ISBN: 0684864797

Spell of the Yukon
by Robert Service

Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon
by Ed Ferrell
Paperback from Epicenter Press
Book Published: May, 1996

Seven Words for Wind: Essays and Field Notes from Alaska's Pribilof Islands
by Sumner MacLeish, Valerie Griffith
Hardcover from Epicenter Press
Book Published: October, 1997

Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945
by Galen Roger Perras
Paperback from United States Naval Inst.
Book Published: September, 2003

The Stikine River.
by Alaska Geographic Society
Paperback from Alaska Geographic Society
Book Published: February, 1980
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Sydney Laurence, Painter of the North (Anchorage Museum of History and Art)
by Kesler E. Woodward
Paperback from University of Washington Press
Book Published: July, 1990

Two Old Women : An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis
Listed under Inuit

Travelers' Tales Alaska: True Stories (Travelers' Tales)
by Bill Sherwonit, Andromeda Romano-Lax, Ellen Bielawski
Paperback from Travelers' Tales Inc
Book Published: September, 2003

Wager With the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story
by James Greiner
Card catalog description: A biography of the Alaskan bush pilot emphasizing his thirty-three year flying career and his contribution to the development of bush aviation.
Paperback from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: August, 1982

Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay
by Philip L. Fradkin
Paperback from University of California Press
Book Published: 03 March, 2003

The Williwaw War: The Arkansas National Guard in the Aleutians in World War II
by Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon
(Hardcover - May 1992)

Working on the Edge : Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession : King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
by Spike Walker

Yukon Alone : The World's Toughest Adventure Race
by John Balzar
Listed under Idatrod

Yukon Quest : The 1,000-Mile Dog Sled Race Through the Yukon and Alaska
by John Firth, Lost Moose
Listed under Idatrod
 
 
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